Detailed information
Species
Fluorite, Quartz
Dimensions
90 x 90 x 47
mm
Locality
Zinc Flat, Slitt Vein, Cambokeels Mine Westgate, Weardale Co. Durham, England
Condition
No recorded repairs
Cambokeels mine is well known by Fluorite collectors for producing exquisite gemmy colourless interpenetrant twin crystals. This specimen, which is nicely provenanced to the Zinc Flat on Slitt Vein, displays two colourless twins, measuring to 1.7 cm on edge. The twin Fluorite crystals have formed at each end of the specimen, which is dome of lustrous pyramidal Quartz crystals from colourless to translucent white, giving the appearance of 'ears'. The Quartz has itself been deposited on an earlier Fluorite crystal. A fine Cambokeels Fluorite specimen from the David Green Collection.