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Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

 
Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite from Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 61121
Mineral:Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite
Locality:Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
Description:Lustrous transparent purple cubic fluorite crystals to 7 mm on slender transparent quartz crystals to 10 mm with tan siderite microcrystals and a few pink rhombohedral rhodochrosite crystals to 2.5 mm on dark sphalerite that fluoresces orange under UV.
Overall Size:7.5x7x3 cm
Crystals:micro to 10 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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