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ED47AM0: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and outstanding and between transparent and translucent. With geometric color zoning with a yellow nucleus and colorless edge areas, and partially covered by lenticular Baryte crystals with some micro-crystals of sulfides. 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 × 7.1 × 3 cm = 3.54” × 2.80” × 1.18”
Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.98”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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