Fluorite: Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois USA

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Fluorite: Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois USA

Description

Species: Fluorite

Locality: Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois USA

Dimensions: 12.5 x 11.5 x 4.8 cm.

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A gorgeous plate of colorful, glassy, lustrous fluorite crystals measuring 12.5 cm tall from the Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois USA. The Minerva #1 mine, considered by most collectors to be the preeminent specimen producer in the Southern Illinois Fluorspar District, is noted for these highly-colorful, visually-complex fluorite specimens featuring a combination of colors and different successive fluorite crystal generations that few other localities worldwide can match. This specimen has been visually attributed to the Adams-Clancey Drift area, which produced a number of superb specimens of this distinctive style around 1994-95′, shortly before the mined closed forever. Annette Slade photo.