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Fluorite

ex Nick Eastwood specimen
Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Red Vein Lead Mine, Stanhope Dean, Stanhope, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 5.7 × 4 cm
Description

Crystals are between 1 and 1.5 cms on edge, display a parquet surface and have grown on a quartz over limestone matrix. Relatively translucent the colour is a pale yellow.  Specimens are rarely seen on the market from this location. This specimen was collected in the mid 1970's, but the mine first opened in 1764.

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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

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