Palm trees, sunshine, and classic Illinois fire

Palm trees, sunshine, and classic Illinois fire.

Filming this beauty outside in the California sun and the color absolutely comes alive. Deep saturated violet cubes glowing with that unmistakable Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District richness — the kind of fluorite that built generations of serious collections.

The sunlight pushing through this piece reveals incredible internal zoning, glassy luster, and that electric purple saturation that made Hardin County material legendary worldwide. Pieces with this kind of presence just hit differently in natural light.

Even better… this specimen carries elite provenance, ex Ernie Collins collection, later housed through Roy Hurlburt Minerals. Always special when a killer old-school Illinois fluorite comes with history attached to it.

True collector-grade American fluorite.