Help to identify this crystalline cluster

[Mityfast]

I have come to have this cluster and I am at a loss to find out anything about it.

It is hard....a nail will no scratch it, but a Carbide tip drill bit will.

I have searched google looking at cube crystals with no help. The seller said it was a "ginger yellow, agate quartz crystal mineral" but I have no way to substantiate this and no idea where it came from.

I will post both dry and wet photos.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[Jim in Idaho]

Don't know what it is, but it's a gorgeous specimen!
Jim

 

[Kray Gelder]

Fluorite, perhaps. The pic top right, when zoomed in, shows perfect cubic fracture going on, along some crystal edges, which is a characteristic of fluorite. IMO.

 

[smokeythecat]

Fluorite would be a good guess.

 

[Mityfast]

It has a fluorite-like crystal structure, but is harder and much heavier than any fluorite I have, so that is what is puzzling me, besides the odd description given by the seller.

 

[fuss]

looks like fluorite, if you happen to have a long wave uv light, it would fluoresce blue. The seller's description is very sketchy.

 

[IAMZIM]

Hmmmm..... I was going to say that barite can have a cubic structure, but barite is slightly softer than flourite.......whatever it is, it's a neat specimen!

 

[Mityfast]

Don't know what it is, but it's a gorgeous specimen!
Jim

Fluorite, perhaps. The pic top right, when zoomed in, shows perfect cubic fracture going on, along some crystal edges, which is a characteristic of fluorite. IMO.

Fluorite would be a good guess.

looks like fluorite, if you happen to have a long wave uv light, it would fluoresce blue. The seller's description is very sketchy.

Hmmmm..... I was going to say that barite can have a cubic structure, but barite is slightly softer than flourite.......whatever it is, it's a neat specimen!

Mystery Solved,
I attended the Canadian Museum of Nature and their amazing Rock and Mineral Department where I saw a near identical specimen. I also had correspondence from the man who found the specimen in Donghai County, JianhSu Province in China also known as the "Crystal Capital of China" (quoting him). He found 4 pieces similar to mine at a old mine site tailings but didn't know what it was.


Rhomboid Andradite Garnet Cluster

According to the museum, I have a rather unique piece.
Thank you all for your input.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Looks like a cubic structure, very interesting specimen.