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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Mauterndorf Quarry, Mauterndorf, Taurach Valley, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 5 × 3.5 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. Faces are etched and skeletonized with good luster. The color is amazing - a very intense blue, cyan and green. The transparency is excellent and also shows this intense blue, cyan and green colors. Photo 1 and 3 with LED backlit, much better in person!

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