DESCRIPTION: | No. 61112
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Mineral: | Fluorite (interpenetrant-twinned crystals) with Galena over Quartz
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Locality: | Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, County Durham, England |
Description: | Lustrous transparent purple cubic fluorite crystals to 8 mm with distorted gray-metallic galena crystals to 7 mm completely coating on one face of a triangular quartz plate. The fluorite crystals are interpenetrant-twinned and fluoresce violet under UV. |
Overall Size: | 13x10x4 cm |
Crystals: | 1-8 mm |
Status: | Sold - Posted here for reference only |
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