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Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

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Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

This superb miniature really stands out amongst others I have seen, even back in the heyday of these mines. The crystals are large, lustrous, and translucent. they have the best rich golden hue you can ask for from the locality. Importantly, they are perched perfectly on matrix of sharp, cubic, purple fluorite! It is a gorgeous specimen and a rare ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 34684    View Count: 318

Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

This mine is noted for fine calcite crystals on fluorite. However this is an especially fine cluster of slightly radiating crystals of amber-colored, lustrous, bladed barite which is perched on purple fluorite. In turn, the fluorite is studded with tiny calcite crystals. The longest barite is 3 cm in length. There is one slight (natural?) divot in ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 39950    View Count: 270

Baryte : BaSO4, Calcite : CaCO3, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

4.9 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm. This pretty mini came out of the collection of Illinois collector Ross Lillie. The accompanying label says it came from "advance mining in 1-83 from the northwest edge main ore body." What makes it really cool is this gemmy, tabular golden BARYTE, which beautifully complements the zoned purple fluorites decorated with little ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 162630    View Count: 100

Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

6.5 x 4.4 x 3.1 cm. Another very unusual AND beautiful Marty Zinn specimen. You mostly think of fluorite and calcite when you think of the Denton Mine, with baryte as an "accessory" mineral. But here, you have a stunning specimen where baryte is the star -- in the form of lustrous, frosty arch-shaped crystals on a base of yellow fluorite! The ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 171584    View Count: 91

Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

6.4 x 5.9 x 3.4 cm. A fine Illinois specimen out of the noted collection of Dawn Minette, combining dark purple cubes of fluorite (to just over 3 cm across the edge) with translucent, platy crystals of baryte. Ex. Minette Collection.
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 167789    View Count: 65

Baryte : BaSO4, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

4.7 cm tall with very minor purple fluorite
 © Dan & Diana Weinrich MineralsPhoto ID: 228118    View Count: 24

Calcite : CaCO3, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

Is this not COOL!? It is a large and super-showy example of a very unusual crystal form for calcite, difficult to describe, but basically doubly-terminated, golden crystals (to over 10 cm!!) that look as if they are composites of dozens of smaller crystals. The calcites are completely exposed on a dramatically contrasting matrix of dark fluorite ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 65536    View Count: 230

Calcite : CaCO3, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

A 4cm X 3cm modified rhombic crystal takes center stage on purple fluorite. 6cm X 5cm X 5cm
 © Geoffrey KrasnovPhoto ID: 90759    View Count: 125

Calcite : CaCO3, Fluorite : CaF2

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

Two distinct habits and colors of Calcite on purple Fluorite from Illinois!
What a tremendous Illinois Calcite specimen. On one side you have nearly
a dozen golden and translucent Calcite crystals and on the other you have
larger, more opaque white scalenahedral Calcites! A truely amazing specimen
from the Denton Mine in Hardin County, ...
 © www.exceptionalminerals.comPhoto ID: 154361    View Count: 99

Calcite : CaCO3

Denton mine, Goose Creek Mine Group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

Cluster of doubly terminated acute scalenohedra. The largest calcite is 5cm. 6cm X 5cm X 5cm
 © Geoffrey KrasnovPhoto ID: 90890    View Count: 111
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