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One from the Textbook

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Carsten Slotta, of Mineral Treasure has this specimen of fluorite currently listed on e-Rocks.

From the lesser known Black Forest locality of Igelschlatt Mine, Waldshut the piece is covered in amazingly perfect hexakis-octahedral crystals.

(It should be added that Igelschlatt Mine is well known for both icositetrahedral and hexakis-octahedral fluorite crystals - see the locality link below for more details/pictures.)

It is not often you see this habit in real life, and not often you see such text book examples of this crystalisation.

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Photos: One from the Textbook
Photos: One from the Textbook