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Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

 
Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

Photo below under longwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorite from White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio

DESCRIPTION:No. 81455
Mineral:Fluorite
Locality:White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio
Description:Lustrous transparent brown cubic fluorite crystals to 8 mm lining several cavities in gray limestone. The fluorite crystal fluoresces white under longwave and shortwave ultraviolet illumination, and phosphoresce when illumination is extinguished.
Overall Size:10x7x5.5 cm
Crystals:2-8 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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