Detailed information
Dimensions
76 x 47 x 33
mm
Locality
Heights Mine, Westgate Weardale, North Pennines Co. Durham, England
Condition
No recorded repairs
A group of frosted semi-transparent pale sage/sea-green Fluorite crystals forming as mainly interpenetrant twins on a mottled grey limestone and Quartz matrix. From Heights mine close to Westgate in Weardale, County Durham, England, the largest crystal measures 1.7 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm; being one of a few distorted forms of the cube. Some of the Fluorite faces have very tiny stubby Quartz crystals with a very high lustre. An unusual coloured Fluorite for Height's mine.
