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.
…and here is one of the large pieces that I cooked last week and discovered this pocket hiding inside behind all the calcite…
here is another one that this face of crystals was hidden behind a thick crust of calcite….
…here is one of the groupings of clusters I cleaned up today….
..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…
..and another view of it here…
..and a second grouping here too….
and a third grouping….
..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…
..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…
..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…
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…
..here is the back side of it…deep purple with a hint of yellow imbedded in them…
..and here is the other side….also deep purple in the center especially and some translucent cubes on the side as you can see…
..and here lightened up a bit for the front side…
..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…
here is also one of the smaller ones I found at the Eureka, which turned out to be very pretty and translucent as well…