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Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

 
Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

Photo below under longwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorite on Quartz from Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England

DESCRIPTION:No. 82293
Mineral:Fluorite on Quartz
Locality:Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England
Description:Lustrous transparent green cubic fluorite crystals to 8 mm on brown matrix coated with small colorless quartz crystals to 1 mm. The fluorite crystals exhibit interpenetrant twinning and fluoresce bright violet under LW-SW UV illumination. Ex. Miller collection T038
Overall Size:25x22x13 mm
Crystals:micro to 8 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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