Super cityscape covers the surface of this blue and purple zoned fluorite.  Small white 3-4 mm barite crystals sparsely scattered on front and back of the fluorite indicating the piece is a floater.  This piece is in excellent condition and displays well.  $100 Reserved

Sharp glassy spear shaped barite crystals cover the top and bottom of the specimen.  This cabinet piece is in good condition and would make a nice addition to any Cave-In-Rock District suite.  A bargain from the A. F. Dodge Collection.  $35

Large white balls of strontianite to 2 cm and smaller sprays of crystals almost cover the calcite crystals below which cover a fluorite base.  Super cabinet size piece in excellent condition.  $60 Reserved

This one has the super color zoning and luster everyone wants in their Southern Illinois fluorite.  This piece also shows the pleochroic (color changing in different lighting) properties of fluorite most people aren't aware of.  The top picture was shot in incandescent light and the bottom photo was slightly backlit in fluorescent light.  This piece is typical of many blue on yellow colored pieces because the yellow fluorite has been etched prior to the final deposition of the blue zone which is a thick 7mm.  This ones nearly perfect with the left corner being a healed corner and the only broken edge being where it sits for display on the bottom.   $100

Small but choice undamaged Thumbnail of this rare mineral.  This piece consists of two spires of benstonite on calcite needles growing toward each other.  There is a little remnant of fluorite attached to the lower left.   This piece came off a larger piece I trimmed down last year and that has been the last piece I was able to purchase in the last year and a half of searching.   $45 SOLD

Nice cluster of sharp pale violet crystals with a preferential coating of barite crystals.  Spear shaped barite crystals up to 7 mm long provide a nice contrast with the fluorite.  The barite and fluorite are in excellent condition and would make a fine addition to any Southern Illinois suite.    $50 Reserved

Superb piece with a sparkling sphalerite crystal flanked on both sides by gemmy pale blue fluorite cubes.  Some zoning of the fluorite with a purple core.  This piece is in nearly perfect condition (when I give a piece this rating most other dealers would call it flawless) and would enhance any display.   $65

Super lustrous piece of yellow fluorite with a thin top layer of incomplete purple.  This piece was heavily etched from below leaving just the edges and corners of the crystals.  These pieces are highly sought after by S. Illinois collectors and resemble what is sometimes called a Carthage corner from Elmwood.   $45 Reserved

Many times the yellow fluorite from Hardin County shows signs of partial to complete etching.  Most of the time, afterward, you aren't left with a very attractive specimen.  This piece contradicts the norm by nicely retaining the original crystal form and good yellow color.  You should be able to see the rounded patterns on the face and maybe make out the few thin clear calcite needles on the surface.   A must have to complete a suite of Hardin County.  $30

Slender amber brown spike-like crystals of calcite on a base of etched sphalerite.  The spiky calcite crystals are notorious for damage and these are in much better than average condition.  $25

The mines of Southern Illinois have a lot of natural hydrocarbons in them and sometimes they coat the specimen.  This piece has a dark black coating of bitumen covering most of it's surface giving the fluorite a shiny black look in reflected light.  With some back-lighting however, you can see the gemmy yellow fluorite lying beneath.  This coating can be cleaned off in gasoline but I think it adds adds a nice effect so I left it on.  This piece would make an excellent addition to a Southern Illinois Fluorite suite.  Minor dings to some corners keeps this under three figures.  $70 Reserved

This piece looks like black fluorite but it is actually a dark purple coated with a shiny black layer of natural bitumen.  Sharp crystal in excellent condition would help fill out a suite.  $15 Reserved

Very cool specimen covered on both sides by crystals.   Bright white sparkling barite crystals some in almost stalactitic form.  The back side is comprised of small pale lavender fluorite cubes sprinkled with drusy barite and a couple of calcite scalenohedron.  This piece is chioce with the only damage a couple of broken calcites on the back side with the fluorite.  $50

Group of witherite crystals in parallel growth which are nicely fluorescent.  This piece has good coverage of white micro crystals of alstonite/paralstonite (can't tell them apart without analysis so I list them together).   I have sold a lot of these to other dealers at the Denver show in the past so here is a chance to buy one before they do.  $70 SOLD

Short stubby witherite crystals cover most of the surface.  The thing that makes this piece unusual is the purple fluorite cube in association.  I don't remember ever seeing anything except yellow fluorite that has been heavily etched with witherite before.   The fluorite is etched from underneath but still has a 4 cm edge perched above the witherite below.  Not pretty but super rare association and from my personal Southern Illinois collection.  $200

Large cabinet specimen with a deep blue (much bluer in person) zone and deep purple overgrowths (see close up).   A couple of dinged corners keep the price way down.   $100 Reserved

Light blue fluorite group with a rare scepter calcite crystal (I've never seen one before from here) tucked away just off center.  The color is much truer in the close-up.  Overall in excellent condition with only micro nicks except for one edge that faces away from view.  $90 Reserved

Superb example of this rare mineral from the district.  Long white slender double terminated crystals of alstonite/paralstonite (can't tell which without x-ray and likely both are present  contrast nicely with  deep brown sphalerite.  If that isn't enough the piece is a "floater" crystalized all around with no attachment point.  This is one of two pieces I picked up several years back and I haven't seen anything like them since.  $150

Nice blue (blue not purple in person) specimen would be much higher if not for the chip visible in the lower front.  I got it anyway because the blues are just so hard to find.  $60 Reserved

Super nice group of crystals with ll the qualities you seek.   Gemmy, zoning, color, and in near perfect condition.  $175 Reserved

I think this one has to be from the Hill-Ledford Mine by looking at the matrix but the label didn't say.  Nice representative sample of this combination.   Minor damage to some corners.  $40 Reserved

Nice pair of cubes in excellent condition which look dark until backlit.  $75 Reserved

Very nice corner with a deep blue zone over a purple core.  This one is much more blue in person.  There is a ding on the very corner otherwise in excellent condition.  $100 Reserved

The best specimens and almost only specimens of benstonite in the world come from the Minerva Mine.  Unfortunately all came out of the ground long ago and are only available as old collections are sold.  This one features over a half dozen spires of white benstonite crystals as epitazial overgrowths on long slender calcite crystals.  A couple of rubs but still an oustanding representative of this rare mineral from the Southern Illinois Fluorspar mines.  I have included a front back and close-up shot.  $600 SOLD

not from Illinois but I wanted to add it here. Very attractive and unusual combination with gemmy clear purple green zoned fluorite with slender quartz crystals and a pale lavender mica (lepidolite or muscovite). The fluorite cubes also have sharp dodecahedral faces on the crystals. I know dealers like to say things are a one time find but this stuff appears to be the real deal. While at the Denver Show a couple of years ago I kept looking for more of these neat fluorites with the various Peruvian Dealers. I finally saw a piece in one of the rooms and asked if they had any more like it. They proceeded to tell me it was their last piece that had come from a unique find made a couple of years earlier and nothing like had been found since. They also wanted around $100 for it and it wasn’t nearly as good as this piece I am selling. This is a must for any fluorite collectors out there or lovers of unusual and attractive multi-mineral combination specimens. There is some minor damage but it is still a nice display piece. If you are not happy simply send it back for a full refund. I have access to a couple more pieces from my source but this is the best of the lot. I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t miss this one and expect another to come down the road anytime soon.  $130