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ET88AM0: Group of Fluorite crystals with two distinct growth phases, with a polycrystalline exterior of yellow color and a greenish-colorless interior, with characteristics different from the usual ones in better known specimens from the Chaillac mining district. 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: 13.2 × 8.6 × 3.6 cm = 5.20” × 3.39” × 1.42”
Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3 cm = 1.65” × 1.18”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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