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Fluorite and Barite from Lettermuckoo (Mickey Tess) Quarry, Kinvarra, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

 
Fluorite and Barite from Lettermuckoo (Mickey Tess) Quarry, Kinvarra, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Fluorite and Barite from Lettermuckoo (Mickey Tess) Quarry, Kinvarra, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

DESCRIPTION:No. 54392
Mineral:Fluorite and Barite
Locality:Lettermuckoo (Mickey Tess) Quarry, Kinvarra, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland
Description:Shallow cavity lined with purple cubic fluorite crystals to 5 mm embedded in transparent colorless barite crystals to 4 mm that have complex parallel faces that indicate they grew against another mineral or were etched post-crystallization. Collected July 2006 by John Lawson (1942-2024) and Robert Lawson
Overall Size:8x3.5x2.5x cm
Crystals:1-5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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