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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Mauterndorf Quarry, Mauterndorf, Taurach Valley, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5.5 × 4 cm
Description

This specimen represents a great rarity. Coming from a relatively unknown locality, never before was a fluorite found like this. This specimen is from a found, which produced only a fist full of well-developed single crystals, and only a few groups and matrix-specimen. The color is amazing - a very intense cyan. The transparency is excellent and also shows this intense cyan color. Faces are etched and skeletonized with good luster. The assembly is very aesthetic with an exposed main-crystal; the contrast with yellow-brown matrix is very nice. An excellent sample on matrix, of which there are only a few pieces. No significant damage to report.

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