Fluorite (twinned crystals) on Quartz with Galena from Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, County Durham, England
Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 58050
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| Mineral: | Fluorite (twinned crystals) on Quartz with Galena
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| Locality: | Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, County Durham, England |
| Description: | Very large plate of lustrous transparent purple interpenetrant-twinned cubic fluorite crystals to 15 mm on milky quartz with scattered gray-metallic cubic galena crystals to 9 mm that have octahedral corner faces. The fluorite fluoresces violet under UV. Collected ca. 1950 |
| Overall Size: | 22x13x6 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-15 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
| Buy similar: |  Minerals from Europe > Halide Minerals |
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