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

Photo below under longwave ultraviolet illumination:

DESCRIPTION:	No. 75996
Mineral:	Tetrahedrite, Quartz, Fluorite, Sphalerite
Locality:	Sweet Home Mine, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
Description:	Lustrous gray-metallic tetrahedrite crystals to 10 mm with scattered transparent colorless cubo-dodecahedral fluorite crystals to 0.5 mm on lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 8 mm plus sphalerite that fluoresces orange under longwave UV. Collected in 2012
Overall Size:	7.5x5.5x1.5 cm
Crystals:	0.5-10.0 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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