AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Tennessee > Fluorite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 72744 |
Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee |
Description: | Large transparent cubic fluorite crystals with surfaces of smaller parallel cubic faces and growth-hillocks resembling square stepped pyramids. The fluorite crystals have yellow core zones, thin purple outer zones, and minor bitumen in surface crevices. Collected ca. 1995 |
Overall Size: | 10x8.5x4 cm |
Crystals: | 12-65 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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