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Fluorite with Calcite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

 
Fluorite with Calcite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with Calcite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with Calcite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with Calcite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

DESCRIPTION:No. 67519
Mineral:Fluorite with Calcite
Locality:Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
Description:Lustrous transparent purple cubic fluorite crystals to 27 mm with minor colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals to 10 mm on the side. The fluorite crystals have 1 mm thick darker zones near the outer faces and surfaces composed of smaller cubic faces. Collected ca. 1990
Overall Size:4.5x4.5x2.5 cm
Crystals:1-27 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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