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'Hidden Forest' Weardale fluorite twinsLocality: Hidden Forest Pocket, Diana Maria Mine, Weardale, County Durham, England Approx size: 3 41" (1. 25" acrylic mounting except Option A which is 1. 5") Approx weight: 1220g (Option A about 30g) Sunlight will fade the color in fluorite. Keep sun exposure brief; do not display in a sun exposed location (even if it looks cool!) Weardale is among the most renowned sources for fluorite among collectors, producing gemmy cubic crystals with Jolly

Approx weight: 320g

The starbursts in the rhyolite are spherulites: minerals composed of dense radial needle-like growth from a point to create a sphere (hence "spher"ulite)

This piece has a very good reaction

Approx weight: 109g

This specimen has saturated orange to orange-red hexagonal tablet crystals liberally covering a dusty black botryoidal matrix

which in turn is part of the broader quartz family

Epidote has a good luster which is apparent with the more well-formed crystals on the specimen

One side is covered with a forest of upright individual crystals

the piece displays two well-formed quartz points

possibly low-quality olivine)

highlighting the fluorite's cleavage planes

white overgrowth (likely low quality white hyalite) on the quartz looks like an alien on hallucinogens

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