Fluorite
specimen number:
2013561
location:
Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
description: The Auglaize Quarry near Junction in Paulding County, Ohio, is a limestone quarry that has been worked for aggregate and construction stone. The quarry exposes Silurian age carbonate rocks that contain cavities and fractures where minerals have formed. Over time it has become a well known collecting site, producing specimens such as fluorite and calcite. The locality is especially noted for iridescent fluorite, where thin surface films create bright rainbow colors through light interference. Collectors value the quarry for this distinctive material as well as for the occurrence of well formed crystals in the limestone host rock.
Classic specimen for this locality with two different generations of fluorite crystallization, the first beautiful iridescent crystals, the second gemmy purple crystals. This is in very good condition. At one time part of the collection of Louis Lafayette.
Questions about this specimen?
Send an email
or call us: 314-341-1811.
See More
Related by Mineral (Fluorite):
Fluorite — Illinois
Origin: Minerva Mine #1, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
Number: (2092199)
Size: 5.5 x 5.0 x 4.5 cm (miniature)
Fluorite — China
Origin: Jiang Jun Gou, Huairou, Beijing, China
Number: (9506685)
Size: 19.5 x 12.0 x 4.5 cm (large-cabinet)
Fluorite — Germany
Origin: Stolberg, Sudharz, Mansfeld-Sudharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Number: (1052416)
Size: 9.0 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm (small-cabinet)
Related by Location (Auglaize Quarry):
Fluorite — Ohio
Origin: Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
Number: (2013072)
Size: 8.0 x 6.0 x 3.0 cm (small-cabinet)
Fluorite — Ohio
Origin: Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
Number: (2013433)
Size: 7.5 x 6.5 x 5.0 cm (small-cabinet)
Calcite — Ohio
Origin: Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Paulding Co., Ohio, USA
Number: (9771065)
Size: 6.4 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm (small-cabinet)