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Fluorite On Quartz

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Fluorite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

This piece comes from the Huanggangliang Iron Tin Mine, Keshiketenqi, ChiFeng, Inner Mongolia, China. This is the same mine that produced the great red and pink fluorites on green quartz some time ago. Blue-green fluorite octahedral on a thicker white quartz crystal. The fluorites show matt surfaces, are very transparent and shows a darker core in the center. The quartz crystal is partially covered with a second, smaller generation of quartz crystals. Great piece!

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White