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Sphalerite, Fluorite, Pyrite over Dolomite from Dodds Pocket, Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 72577
Mineral:	Sphalerite, Fluorite, Pyrite over Dolomite
Locality:	Dodds Pocket, Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England
Description:	Rich cluster of many lustrous black sphalerite crystals to 2 mm with a few transparent colorless cubic fluorite crystals to 4 mm over with silky white dolomite crystals to 1 mm plus minor yellow-metallic pyrite included in the base. Collected in January 2006. Fluoresces bright violet under 365 nm LW UV and 254 nm SW UV illumination
Overall Size:	7.5x6x6 cm
Crystals:	0.2-4.0 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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