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FLUORITE on DOLOMITE with CALCITE - FLU4068

FLUORITE on DOLOMITE with CALCITE
FLUORITE on DOLOMITE with CALCITEFLUORITE on DOLOMITE with CALCITEFLUORITE on DOLOMITE with CALCITE
$130.00 Weight: 425 g


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Specifications

Villabona Mining Area, Asturias, Spain
91mm x 72mm x 34mm
Cabinet
Transparent to translucent yellow cubic fluorite crystals to 1 cm across, sitting atop white saddle-shaped dolomite crystals to 0.8 cm across. A few tan-white translucent calcite crystals are also present growing atop the dolomite crystals on the backside of the specimen; the largest calcite is 1.3 cm tall. Scattered damage to the fluorites, as can be seen in the photos. The fluorite is fluorescent yellow under shortwave, midwave and longwave UV light; the calcites are fluorescent pink under shortwave and midwave UV light. For more information about this occurrence, see “Fluorite and Associated Minerals from Asturias, Spain” in Mineralogical Record, Volume 23, Number 1, January - February, 1992, pages 69-76.