More Fluorite Cleaned End of April

I caught up on my websites last night and then decided to do some more cleaning this morning, both additional fluorite pieces and the house. During my cleaning last week, I actually discovered a few pockets of cubes in large pieces that were covered by calcite, and photographed a few of them today.

2 Cooking Three Up

…and here is one of the large pieces that I cooked last week and discovered this pocket hiding inside behind all the calcite…

2 Pocket Found During Cleaning with Galena

here is another one that this face of crystals was hidden behind a thick crust of calcite….

2 This Face Revealed by Cleaning

…here is one of the groupings of clusters I cleaned up today….

2  Another Grouping Cleaned Up

..the one on the far side leaning on the near one, was yet another piece where the cubes were hidden behind some thick calcite crust…another one I was glad that it cleaned up so nicely to reveal some really nice big cubes…

2 Another Cluster Found After Cleaning 2

..and another view of it here…

2 Beautiful Cluster Cleaned Up

..and a second grouping here too….

2  More Cubes Cleaned Up

 

and a third grouping….

2 Big Ones Cleaned Up

..the one on the left is a nice plate with large cubes on the front and back side both…it had alot of rust colored stains on it that I removed first with Super Iron Out and then today I placed it in the Muriatic Acid to remove the calcite and clean it back up…it actually looks much better now…

2 Huge Front and Back Cluster

..this side has alot more cubes than the other side, so I didnt even photograph the other side…

I have two larges ones with something on them that resembles sand,but it wont come off with either solution so I`m guessing I get to keep it no matter what…one is this one, which as cubes on both sides of the piece…

2 Large Cluster Cleaned Up

..and here is the top of the piece with the large cubes and the yellow sand looking stuff and some white spots all over it…

2 Large Cluster Cubes

There were two nice clusters that I found at the Eureka Mine this year, both cleaned up very nicely with the help of the Muriatic Acid, the first one has a ridge of nice cubes on either side of it…

2 Deep Purple Cluster Cleaned Back Side

..here is the back side of it…deep purple with a hint of yellow imbedded in them…

2 Deep Purple Cluster Cleaned 2

..and here is the other side….also deep purple in the center especially and some translucent cubes on the side as you can see…

2 Deep Purple Cluster Cleaned

..and here lightened up a bit for the front side…

2 Deep Purple Cluster Cleaned Lightened Up

..and here are the cubes closer up….

and the other one I soaked for a day in Jet Blue Liquid Detergent to give it some extra shine…since I couldnt find any sausheen detergent…

2 Deep Purple Cluster

 

2 Deep Purple Cluster 3

 

2 Deep Purple Cluster 4

here is also one of the smaller ones I found at the Eureka, which turned out to be very pretty and translucent as well…

2 Palm Sized See Thru Cluster

 

2 Palm Sized See Thru Cluster 2

 

 

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