Fluorite

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Source special issue: classic-minerals-of-northern-england, PDF page: 75. Label: Fluorite, 11 cm, from the Silver Dycks vein, Blackdene mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, Durham (LG-53). A superb, tapering, elongated floater crystal of purple fluorite 11 cm long. One face is coated with a very fine quartz druse with a sprinkling of small pyrite crystals. Weardale has long been known for complete “floaters” and unusual deformed or elongated crystals of fluorite. They have never been common, however, and are highly collectible specialties of the district. Few are as attractively colored or as lustrous as this beautiful piece, which was recovered by a miner in 1969 and sold directly to Lindsay Greenbank. Joe Budd photo.