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| I named this small unnamed Fluorite mine the Fluorite-Feldspar mine. That's Indian maiden "Blythe" with the nearby Coloado River and the Little Maria Mountain peak under a fluorescent Feldspar moon. It's a beautiful serene location especially under a Full Moon but my mine logo art is pure imagination, a desert mirage. There are only scorpions, lizards and tortoises, no moon-bathing maidens so far but there were beautiful fluorescent minerals. |
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More Barite-Fluorite UV pics will be added but here are some of the best specimens and pics so far. But there's a mystery . . . . . .
I'm not a geologist or scientist but to me all these pieces look like Barite in daylight. They're heavy and solid-looking. I picked them up from a mine dump of Barite chunks. But they mostly fluoresce a wonderful deep shade of purple-blue like Fluorite. Are they a mix of some kind? For example, look at "Barite-Fluorite H" below. That's a very typical piece. It's supposed to be Barite. But where's the pale cream fluorescence? Maybe they should be called "Bluorite" or "Flairite". The black non-fluorescent bands are found on many of these pieces. |
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