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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Is Murvonis Mine, Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 6.7 × 4 cm
Description

Interesting fluorite from Sardinia: fluorite cubes up to 0.8 cm with highly glossy and intensive parqueted faces. The outer layer of the fluorites show a slightly violet color. Inside there is a violet zoning which gives the fluorite an interesting deep character. Undamaged!

 

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