Fluorite

This excellent, recently mined specimen features, several, glassy and gemmy, emerald green, penetration twins to 2.25 cm across. All are perched on a solid limestone matrix. This specimen comes from recent workings at the only mine in England currently being run exclusively (and legally) for specimens, the Rogerley Mine, Weardale as mined by U.K. Mining Ventures. This company, led by American investors, continued the legacy began by the Greenbanks and their partners here in 1975. So, Rogerley pieces are an important part of this collection. This material is super fluorescent, and fluoresces a rich purple color even just in daylight. Illustrated in "Classic Minerals of Northern England," page 94. A large and beautiful specimen - and because they are mined recently, about the only such large and beautiful English material that will not break the bank to own. Buy them now, is my advice, before this too passes...the mine almost shut down and only kept going by a lucky find at the end of the last season.

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Product details

Species

Fluorite

SizeCabinet

Dimensions11.5 x 8.6 x 4.8 cm

Locality

UK, England, Rogerley Mine

Added on10/23/2024

Comments

Known provenance

2024/08