Fluorite, Sphalerite

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Good Elmwood specimens have disappeared with depressing speed since the closing of the mine. Here you have a BIG specimen that is extremely striking. What you cannot see here is the INTENSE purple color of the crystals; under good light, they are just magnificent. But what makes them extra-nice is that the sphalerite they sit on is not amorphous, but really well-crystallized, which adds a lot to the piece (the matrix is solid sphalerite, the zinc ore that was the reason for the mine in the first place). The fluorites measure up to 2.2 cm along the edge.