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FLUORITE with minor GALENA - FLU5070

FLUORITE with minor GALENA
FLUORITE with minor GALENAFLUORITE with minor GALENA
$160.00 Weight: 992.232 g


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Specifications

Rogerley Mine, near Frosterley; Weardale District; Northern Pennines; County Durham, England, UK
107mm x 75mm x 37mm
Dark green transparent to translucent interpenetrating cubic fluorite crystals, up to 13 mm across, with minor dark gray galena, on a gray limestone matrix. Sawn base. Fluorite is fluorescent blue-violet under shortwave, midwave and longwave UV light. These fluorites also exhibit daylight fluorescent, with portions of the crystals turning blue under direct sunlight.