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Fluorite, Blue Circle Quarry, Eastgate


A block of altered limestone covered on one side with emerald green fluorite crystals. There are four oxidised cubo-octahedral crystals of galena and a little quartz on the rear. From the Blue Circle Quarry, Eastgate, Weardale. Part of the Friends of Killhope mineral collection on loan to the museum.