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FLUORITE on
SPHALERITE with minor GALENA
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District
Illinois – Kentucky Fluorospar District
Hardin County, Illinois, USA
Cabinet (11.0 x 7.9 x 6.2 cm)
Interesting stepped translucent purple cubic fluorite crystals with yellow-brown internal phantoms, some with included bitumen, atop dark red-brown crystalline sphalerite. The phantoms fluoresce yellow under shortwave UV light. Tucked in among the sphalerite are a couple of octahedrally-modified galena crystals. The largest fluorite crystals are 2 cm across. From a closed locality. See the special “Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District” issue of Mineralogical Record, Volume 28, Number 1 (January – February, 1997), pages 44 – 45 for additional information regarding mineral occurrences in this District.
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