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Fluorite (twinned crystals) on Quartz with Galena from Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, County Durham, England

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:

DESCRIPTION:	No. 58050
Mineral:	Fluorite (twinned crystals) on Quartz with Galena
Locality:	Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, County Durham, England
Description:	Very large plate of lustrous transparent purple interpenetrant-twinned cubic fluorite crystals to 15 mm on milky quartz with scattered gray-metallic cubic galena crystals to 9 mm that have octahedral corner faces. The fluorite fluoresces violet under UV. Collected ca. 1950
Overall Size:	22x13x6 cm
Crystals:	1-15 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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