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Fluorite$360.00
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Blackdene mine, by the village of Ireshopeburn in the Weardale Valley of County Durham, England, is one of the most famous mines in this area, especially renowned for its magnificent purple Fluorite. This beautifully coloured small cabinet specimen exhibits many shades of purple, subtly grading to lilac, as intergrown cubic crystals up to almost 2.5 cm on edge. Some of the crystals also exhibit the much rarer distorted cubic habit whereby one axis is elongated to form a more tabular, rectangular crystal. A few well-formed silver-grey Galena crystals to about 8 mm are attached around the sides and the Fluorite hides an underlying matrix of dark-grey metasomatic altered mudstone with sparse micro-crystals of Pyrite. A beautiful lilac and purple Fluorite form the classic Blackdene mine, Weardale.
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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.4 x 7.1 x 3.8 cm
Locality
SKUCC11183
Listed on10/24/2024
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