Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Fluorite

Views:
Watches:
BMM746741

Fluorite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3 × 2.8 cm
Description

Yellow, lustrous fluorite specimen with dark violet, almost black zoning along the edges! The cubes measure up to 1.9 cm. This fluorite cubes on the matrix are associated with some bright barites. The faces show a good square texture. The specimen comes from the German locality Frohnau, Annaberg in Saxony.

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