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Fluorite$2,500.00
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Most of us are used to seeing fine specimens of green Fluorite from the world famous Heights mine north of Westgate in Weardale, County Durham, England and it is all to easy to become a little blasé. This specimen has certainly made me look more than twice with its two large, intergrown crystals divided by a thin line of creamy white Aragonite. The slightly larger of the two distorted cubes measures 6.2 cm on its longest edge. and although not an interpenetrant twin, the two prism do dovetail making a superb pair. The crystals are translucent to opaque green with a purple to white core . Within and across each prism their colour drifts between leaf and forest green to shades of chrome and sea green. It's lovely! Also on the specimen is partly etched Aragonite and a 1 cm etched grey Galena crystal nestled between the two Fluorite crystals. There is some damage to the specimen, but I personally think it's tremendous and will look superb displayed. Under LWUV the Fluorite fluoresces bright lavender white and the Aragonite pale, ethereal red, the latter displaying a faint persistence of around five seconds.
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