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Fluorite on Calcite from Old Mine Plaza, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut

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DESCRIPTION:	No. 81597
Mineral:	Fluorite on Calcite
Locality:	Old Mine Plaza, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Description:	Lustrous transparent colorless-to-pale green octahedral fluorite crystals to 10 mm on small lustrous translucent white scalenohedral calcite crystals to 1 mm. Rosettes of unidentified brown microcrystals are scattered throughout (goethite?). Rare fluorite locality. Collected ca. 1996, The fluorite fluoresces violet under UV illumination
Overall Size:	26x26x15 mm
Crystals:	micro to 10 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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