Fluorite, Mt Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
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Species: Fluorite
Locality: Mt Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Description: A green fluorite from Colorado! This is quite an uncommon find! Mt. Antero may be the highest elevation mineral-collecting locality in the contiguous 48 states, at over 13,000 feet (over 3,962m). It is generally accessible only in late summer and then is difficult due to summer storms and low oxygen levels in the air. It is located within the San Isabel National Forest, about 15 miles northwest of Salida, in a chain of 14,000-foot (4,267m) peaks in the Collegiate Range. Mineral specimens have been collected at Mt. Antero from pegmatites and miarolitic cavities in granite since 1885. (Jacobson, 1979).
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Species: Fluorite
Locality: Mt Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Description: A green fluorite from Colorado! This is quite an uncommon find! Mt. Antero may be the highest elevation mineral-collecting locality in the contiguous 48 states, at over 13,000 feet (over 3,962m). It is generally accessible only in late summer and then is difficult due to summer storms and low oxygen levels in the air. It is located within the San Isabel National Forest, about 15 miles northwest of Salida, in a chain of 14,000-foot (4,267m) peaks in the Collegiate Range. Mineral specimens have been collected at Mt. Antero from pegmatites and miarolitic cavities in granite since 1885. (Jacobson, 1979).
Size: Thumbnail
Species: Fluorite
Locality: Mt Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Description: A green fluorite from Colorado! This is quite an uncommon find! Mt. Antero may be the highest elevation mineral-collecting locality in the contiguous 48 states, at over 13,000 feet (over 3,962m). It is generally accessible only in late summer and then is difficult due to summer storms and low oxygen levels in the air. It is located within the San Isabel National Forest, about 15 miles northwest of Salida, in a chain of 14,000-foot (4,267m) peaks in the Collegiate Range. Mineral specimens have been collected at Mt. Antero from pegmatites and miarolitic cavities in granite since 1885. (Jacobson, 1979).
