Quartz after Fluorite with Sphalerite
specimen number:
4481189
location:
Rampgill mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England, UK
description:
I think this really neat, sugary sparkling micro crystals of quartz forming hollow casts after now gone cubic fluorite crystals. This very evident in the video. Lustrous black crystals of sphalerite are scattered throughout.
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