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Calcite from Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida

 
Calcite from Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida

Calcite from Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida

Calcite from Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida

Calcite from Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Calcite from Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida

DESCRIPTION:No. 63286
Mineral:Calcite
Locality:Ruck's Pit Quarry, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida
Description:Lustrous transparent golden-yellow calcite crystals on a fragment of gray calcite-rich matrix. The calcite crystals are scalenohedral form and fluoresce white under SW UV illumination and phosphoresce after illumination is extinguished. Ex. Mort Metersky collection, director of International Calcite Collectors Association
Overall Size:4x3x3 cm
Crystals:4-22 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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