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Fluorite & Baryte

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Fluorite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Bäuerin Mine, Schottenberg, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.2 × 7.5 × 7.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.10cm
Description

Superb specimen from the Bäuerin Mine with very richly covered with yellowish transparent fluorite cubes up to 1.1 cm with red-brown phantoms and violet rims. The fluorite is associated with pale pink highly lustrous tabular barite crystals up to 2.5 cm and some small chalcopyrite crystals.
The fluorite crystals are undamaged but the barite has some cleavage.

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Cartils Minerals

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