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Fluorite & Galena

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Fluorite & Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Jug Vein, Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 6.3 × 2.9 cm
Description

Very nice specimen of glassy pale olive green fluorite cubes along the upper edge of a galena, dolomite and calcite matrix.

The reverse side a mass of red to tan coloured dolomite with grey calcite, the largest fluorite cube is 24mm, also has a druze of calcite to the upper edge.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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