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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Blanchard Claims, Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Fluorite cubes on quartz crystals from the famous Blanchard Mine of New Mexico. The cubes have bright color in the center and on the edges an intensive translucent blue color with satin luster on the faces. Three-dimensional construction, bottom was extracted from the rock. Some damages at the corners.

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