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EB49AM0: Group of Fluorite crystals, with two distinct growth phases, a polycrystalline exterior with an intense yellow color and a gray to colorless interior. Its characteristics are different from the usual ones in better known specimens from the Chaillac mining district. With lenticular crystals of Baryte. A specimen rescued from the past from the Les Redoutières Mine, less well known than other mines in the same mining district.
Les Redoutières Mine, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire France (±1997)
Specimen size: 9.1 × 7.4 × 4.5 cm = 3.58” × 2.91” × 1.77”
Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.87”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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