2501 Fluorite, Anchor Mine, Lottah, Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
Dark purple, almost black botryoidal fluorite. Specimen measures 20x18x8mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fluorite
ncat WD214 Fluorite, Quartz, Mount Garnet, Tablelands Region, Queensland
Pale green fluorite with a darker core, preferentially coated with drusy quartz crystals. The pale green fluorite fluoresces more strongly than the darker core. Specimen measures 46x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU002 Fluorite, Minium, Pyromorphite, Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, South Australia
Tiny colourless fluorite crystals with red minium in a void that would have originally been a galena crystal. Also present, colourless to white acicular (calcium-rich?) pyromorphite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD7, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
A small ore specimen comprising purple fluorite (fluorescent), chalcopyrite, and small amounts of galena and sphalerite. Specimen measures 22x20x20mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1065 Fluorite, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Lots of colourless fluorite crystals that fluoresce pink, on a solid fluorite matrix that fluoresces blue. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP281 Fluorite, Galena, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Cube-octahedral galena crystals on and in colourless to slightly hint of green cubes of fluorite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0074 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Hackly silver-rich gold in fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0073 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Hackly silver-rich gold in mostly grey fluorite with a hint of purple. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0053 Fluorite, Pyrite, Siderite, Renison Bell Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Colourless fluorite cubes that fluoresce blue under longwave ultraviolet, partially coated with siderite. Tiny pyrite crystals also present. Width of view 11.5mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
1829 Atacamite, Malachite, Fluorite, Dickite, Goethite, Quartz, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, South Australia
A bit of layering here. The bottom layer is quartz crystals, and they are completely covered in goethite. Next is white dickite. On top of the dickite are colourless-grey fluorite cubes (not fluorescent). These in turn are covered by fibrous malachite and then dark green atacamite. Width of view 5.75mm....
ncat VH477 Fluorite, Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Mareeba Shire, Queensland
A cluster of rounded fluorite crystals with blue to yellow zoning. Fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet, but not strongly so. A hint of green fluorescence in patches under shortwave ultraviolet. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Specimen is 30mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD15 Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Barite, Pyrite, Ernest Henry Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Lots of chalcopyrite crystals on small purple cubes of fluorite and red-fluorescing double-terminated calcite crystals. A few small yellow barite crystals also present. Even smaller pyrite crystals are sprinkled on the barite, and to a lesser extent, on fluorite and calcite crystals. Width of view 17.25mm. Click on the image...