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Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

 
Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorite with minor Bitumen from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

DESCRIPTION:No. 72695
Mineral:Fluorite with minor Bitumen
Locality:Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
Description:Transparent cubic fluorite crystals with limestone included on the bottom. The fluorite crystals are with yellow with thin purple outer zones and have surfaces composed of smaller parallel cubic faces. Small black bitumen balls are in surface crevices. Collected ca. 1995
Overall Size:7x6x3.5 cm
Crystals:40-50 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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