GALENA with fluorescent FLUORITE - Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico, USA

Galena crystal, Quartz crystals, and clear colorless Fluorite - fluorescent blue LW, with some yellow LW fluorescing Anglesite.

ex Fred J. Parker - "Parker Minerals"

from Blanchard Mine (Portalas-Blanchard Mine; Portales-Blanchard Mine; Hansonburg Lead mine; McCarthy Lead mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA

Measures approximately 1.5 x 1.25 x 1 inch, 2.22 oz / 38 x 32 x 25 mm, 63g

Price: 28.00 USD

Item # A0390314

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).

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