Fluorite, Tetrahedrite, Apatite & Quartz

Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park Co., Colorado
Miniature, 4.3 x 2.4 x 1.7 cm
Start Time: 04/20/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/27/2017 6:33:13 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

An aesthetic and surprising combination miniature from the famous Sweet Home Mine. Pretty light lavender fluorite cubes with frosted faces are richly scattered on the mounded matrix of sharp, metallic tetrahedrite crystals and water-clear quartz points. The fluorites fluoresce purple, as you expect. The SURPRISE under LW UV light is that the tetrahedrites have a thin glassy apatite coating, that fluoresces golden-yellow! Uncommon and excellent combination material from mid-1990s finds.

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