Fluorite

 
     
Fluorite with barite (middle)
Origin: Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Sample size: 10 x 6 x 5 cm, fluorite to 2.5 cm, barite group 4 cm
 
Twinned crystal
Origin: Eastgate, Weardale, Durham, England
Sample size: 1.3 cm
 
Fluorite with galena
Origin: Tex-Mex mine, Bingham district, Socorro Co., New Mexico
Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2 cm, crystals 9 mm
 
  
Origin: Pine Canyon deposit, Grant Co., New Mexico
Sample size: 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm, crystals to 6 mm
 
  
Fluorite with galena
Origin: Tex-Mex mine, Bingham district, Socorro Co., New Mexico
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm, fluorite crystals to 8 mm, galena to 9 mm
 
Fluorite on sphalerite
Origin: Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Sample size: 2.5 cm crystal face
     
Origin: Heights mine, Eastgate, Weardale, England
Sample size: all about 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Walworth, New York, USA
Sample size: left 1 cm crystal, right 2 cm crystal
 
  
 
  
 
Origin: Elmwood, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Sample size: top left crystals 5-6 mm, right sphalerite crystal 2 cm, middle several crystals to 7 mm, bottom 1.2 cm crystal
 
     
Origin: near Glenwood, Catron Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 4 cm with creamy mint green octahedral fluorite crystals to 6 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Origin: Taolin Mine, Hunan, China
Sample size: 12 x 7 x 5.5 cm
 
  
  
Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Sample size: 12.5 x 7.5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Transparent fluorite overgrowth on malachite and azurite
Fluorite with malachite
Origin: Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia
Sample size: field of view about 3 mm (top), field of view about 2 mm (bottom)
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Vic Cloete 

 

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