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Fluorite (twinned crystals with phantom-growth zoning) from Skears Mine, High Stope, Firestone Level, Teesdale, County Durham, England

DESCRIPTION:	No. 71924
Mineral:	Fluorite (twinned crystals with phantom-growth zoning)
Locality:	Skears Mine, High Stope, Firestone Level, Teesdale, County Durham, England
Description:	Lustrous transparent-to-translucent cubic fluorite crystals with many interpenetrant-twinned crystals throughout. The fluorite crystals are transparent yellow with parallel translucent gray internal phantom-growth zones on two faces of each crystal. Collected in March 2010
Overall Size:	5x5x3 cm
Crystals:	1-15 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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