Fluorite with Chalcopyrite
specimen number:
3651056
location:
Annabel Lee mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
description:
Lovely rosy purple translucent mostly lustrous cubic crystals of fluorite measuring to 1.5 cm in size forming a matrix is cluster. The underlying fluorite is yellowish in color. Dotted throughout with small brassy crystals of chalcopyrite. This has the typical small micro-cleaving present on some corners, however I think this in really fine condition compared to most. Very pretty.
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