Crystal Prospect

fluorescent FLUORITE with GALENA - Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, New Mexico, USA

Clear-blue cubes Fluorite (fluorescent blue LW, some SW response), gray Galena cubic crystals with octahedral corner modifications, clear Quartz micros, and Anglesite coating (fluorescent weak yellow LW).

from Desert Rose Mine (Downey Stope; Mountain Canyon Mine; Ace High Mine), Garden Spring Canyon, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA

this locality is on a private property

Measures approximately 2 x 2 x 1.5 inch, 8.88 oz / 51 x 51 x 38 mm, 252g

this specimen is featured on mindat, minID: 77C-FNJ

Price: 50.00 USD

Item # A0511214

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).