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Fluorite On Calcite

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Fluorite On Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.7 × 10.6 × 5.9 cm
Description

Nice old specimen comprising masses of waxy white scalenohedral calcite crystals covered over with numerous colourless fluorite cubes covering over.

Both fluorite and calcite are included with crystals of pyrite, the crystals being larger within the calcite.

Recently obtained from Krantz, the specimen was from a 19th Century collection belonging to the d'Amour family of France.

Impressive!

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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