| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Utah > Quartz coating Fluorite on Quartz |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 77229 |
| Mineral: | Quartz coating Fluorite on Quartz |
| Locality: | Deer Trail Mine, Deer Trail Mountain-Alunite Ridge mining area, 8 km SSW of Marysvale, Piute County, Utah |
| Description: | Sparkling white quartz microcrystals coating translucent green cubo-octahedral fluorite crystals to 18 mm with quartz crystals to 4 mm. The decision to keep the quartz coating on the fluorite makes the crystal form more visible. The fluoresces violet under longwave UV illumination. Collected ca. 1980 |
| Overall Size: | 40x25x25 mm |
| Crystals: | micro to 18 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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