AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Illinois > Fluorite with Calcite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 48095 |
Mineral: | Fluorite with Calcite |
Locality: | Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek District, Hardin County, Illinois |
Description: | Cubic crystal 65 mm across of transparent blue fluorite with impressions in the crystal faces from a bladed mineral, possibly barite, that since dissolved away. Elongated scalenohedral white calcite crystals to 10 mm are overgrown in one area. |
Overall Size: | 6.5x6x5.5 cm |
Crystals: | 3-65 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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