| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from England > Fluorite (twinned crystals) over Quartz |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 74729 |
| Mineral: | Fluorite (twinned crystals) over Quartz |
| Locality: | Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England |
| Description: | Superb specimen of lustrous transparent green cubic fluorite crystals to 8 mm on brown matrix coated with small colorless quartz crystals to 1 mm. The fluorite crystals exhibit interpenetrant twinning and fluoresce bright violet under SW UV illumination. Collected ca. 1985 |
| Overall Size: | 4x3x2 cm |
| Crystals: | micro to 8 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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