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Fluorite & Quartz

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Fluorite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Stampfl Glacier, Finkenberg, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 7 × 3.9 cm
Description

Green octahedral fluorite partially covered with white quartz. The fluorites show a light zoning along edges, the faces are mat shiny. This is an old found from the 80s from the slopes below the Stampfl glacier (2700 meter above sea level, near Schrammacher). The locality is exhausted, there will be no more founds. No visible damage to report, the backside was extracted from the rock.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White