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FLUORITE
Wear10
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Miniature 50x40x40mm (2"x1.6")
Glassy transparent twinned crystals, largest 12mm of a deep rich green
colour. Like most Rogerley specimens highly fluorescent in daylight
(blue/purple).
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley,
Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE
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ARAGONITE
Wear12
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Small cabinet - 90x70x45mm (3.5"x2.8")
Amber coloured fluorite is not particularly common in Weardale but occasionally
specimens did surface from this quarry. This is an excellent example
with fluorite crystals up to 12mm with a scattering of stubby nail head
calcites and aragonite.
Eastgate Cement Quarry, Eastgate,
Weardale, County Durham
£55
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FLUORITE
Wear14 |
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Small Cabinet - 80x55x50mm (3.2"x2.2")
Rogerley is well known for its green fluorite but in 2005 a small pocket
produced specimens exhibiting two generations of fluorite -later purple
fluorite coating earlier amber fluorite with a thin veneer of quartz
in between. Unusual.
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley,
Weardale, County Durham
£42
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SPHALERITE
Wear15 |
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Small Cabinet -80x70x30mm (3.2"x2.8")
Lustrous sphalerite crystals well displayed on a bed of quartz crystals.
Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope
Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE
Wear16 |
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Small cabinet-
80x55x35mm (3.2"x2.2")
Two superb 15mm green fluorite twinned crystals with scattered smaller
un-twinned crystals. Strong fluorescence in daylight. Sawn base and
front edge.
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley
Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE
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Small cabinet - 70x60x50mm (2.8" x 2.4")
Interesting specimen consisting of a complex calcite crystal, 40x35mm
on a bed of quartz with iridescent pyrite and a few fluorite crystals.
Calcite has 2 included thin quartz ribs and a slight nick on one edge.
'Zinc flat', 325 Level, Cambokeels Mine
Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE
Wear19 |
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Small cabinet - 80x65x50mm (3.2"x 2.6")
The zinc flat workings produced some unusual coloured fluorite specimens
and this is one of them! Semi-transparent light grey-brown fluorite
crystals to 12mm with a scattering of chalcopyrite crystals.
'Zinc flat', 325 Level, Cambokeels Mine
Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham
£35
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TODOROKITE
& ARAGONITE
Wear20
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Small cabinet - 70x60x55mm(2.8"x 2.4")
Sprays of aragonite crystals, The apparent 'dullness' is caused by
a brown, slightly iridescent globular coating of the rare mineral
todorokite.
Broadwood, Frosterley,
Weardale, County Durham
£30
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Wear21 |
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Small cabinet - 60x50x30mm (2.4"x2")
Aggregated ribs of well formed pyrite with a little quartz and fluorite.
Pyrite occurred sparingly at Cambokeels.
'Zinc flat', 325 Level, Cambokeels Mine
Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham
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GALENA
Wear23 |
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Small cabinet -90x55x50mm( 3.6" x 2.2")
Aesthetic specimen of bright modified galena cubes (to 30mm) showing
some offset faces with a scattering of small fluorite crystals. Ex.
my own collection.
Blackdene Mine, St. John's Chapel
Weardale, County Durham
£100
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FLUORITE
Wear25 |
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Cabinet - 120x 100x45mm (4.8"x4.0")
Display specimen with numerous transparent twinned and single crystals,
capped with a small area of calcite.
Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope,
Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE
Wear26 |
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Cabinet - 140x70x75mm (5.6"x2.8")
Good display specimen of sharp, twinned, light-green coloured crystals
to 15mm across.
Heights Mine, Eastgate
Weardale, County Durham.
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FLUORITE and
GALENA
Wear27 |
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Cabinet - 140x70x40mm
(5.5"x2.8")
Superb twinned crystals, largest 20mm across with scattering of slightly
altered octahedral galena crystals.
Sawn base and rear edge.
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley,
Weardale, County Durham
£135 |
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FLUORITE
Wear29 |
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Small Cabinet - 90x65x35mm (3.6"x2.6")
Semi-transparent, unusual pastel green crystals pleasingly scattered
over a micro crystalline quartz matrix.
Heights Mine, Eastgate
Weardale, County Durham.
£45
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FLUORITE
Wear30
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Large thumbnail- 30x30x20mm (1.2"x1.2")
Two twinned crystals, the larger one of exceptional colour and clarity
with a a few partially included micro quartz crystals
Heights Mine, Eastgate
Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE
Wear31 |
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Small cabinet -80x65x35mm (3.2" x 2.6")
Interlocking, transparent cubes to 16mm along edge of a grey-brown colour
with a scattering of pyrite crystals. I've only seen this colour occur
at Cambokeels.
325 'Zinc Flat' Level, Cambokeels Mine
Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham
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FLUORITE with QUARTZ
Wear32 |
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Cabinet - 110x90x50mm
(4.4"x3.6")
Well defined coating of quartz crystals to fluorite cubes perched on which
are a scattering of later small clear fluorite crystals and a little pyrite.
325 'Zinc Flat' Level, Cambokeels Mine,
Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham
£48
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| FLUORITE
Wear33 |
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Small cabinet/miniature- 55x45x25mm (2.2"x1.8")
Plate of deep green twinned & untwinned crystals that show strong
purple fluorescence even in ordinary daylight.
Rogerley Mine
Frosterley, Weardale
£75
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FLUORITE
Wear34 |
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Reserved
Cabinet - 100x70x45mm (4"x 3.8")
Aggregated and individual twinned purple fluorite crystals to 12mm.
Frazer's Hush Mine
Rookhope, Weardale, County Durham
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