Fluorite

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A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME, fluorite specimen from the famous Weardale area of England. This very fine, two-sided, mounded piece features super lustrous and glassy, interpenetrating fluorite cubes to 2.1 cm on a sliver of limestone matrix. Typically, for many Weardale fluorites, the green cubes turn purple (natural fluorescence) in nearly all lighting conditions. The fluorites really are green! Very trivial damage, overall, to this fine old-timer. SUPER fluorescence. Old piece from workings either in the early 1800s or mid-1900s. Ex. Roman Gaufman and George Elling Collections.