Crystal Prospect

fluorescent CALCITE crystal - Pugh Quarry, Ohio, USA

Amber colored Calcite scalenohedral crystal, double terminated, with smaller crystals, on matrix. Fluorescent in an orange color LW, weak SW response

ex "Parker Minerals", collected ca. 1970

from closed to collecting Pugh Quarry (France Stone Co. Custar quarry), Weston, Wood County, Ohio, USA

Measures approximately 3 x 2 x 1.5 inch, 6.38 oz / 76 x 51 x 38 mm, 181g

Item # A0030314

SOLD

To show the fluorescent response the specimen was illuminated using 6 watt 254nm (Short Wave) / 366nm (Long Wave) UVGL-58 lamp (you need a proper UV light source to observe the fluorescence, more powerful lamp = brighter response).