Fluorite with Quartz, Sphalerite
specimen number:
2013289
location:
Davis-Dearfoff Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
description:
Classic specimen from Illinois with attractive rosy purple translucent and lustrous cubic crystals of fluorite measuring to 1.2 cm on edge across the top of a glistening colorless quartz crystal matrix. Minor sphalerite is present. In good condition with very minimal micro-damage and cleaving present. This would date to the 1960s most likely. Previously from the collection of Louis Lafayette.
Size: 10.0 x 6.5 x 5.0 cm (cabinet)
Collection: Harris Precht
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