Calcite with Fluorite, Sphalerite
specimen number:
4481051
location:
Derbyshire, England, UK
description:
Pale yellow or golden mostly gemmy and lustrous scalenohedral crystal of calcite to 2.8 cm in size set on matrix with colorless cubic crystals of fluorite and lustrous black crystals of sphalerite. A previous label from the Obodda collection notes that the specimen was at one time part of the collection of Joseph Neeld. The specimen then would be quite old as he passed away in 1856.
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