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Quartz & Fluorite

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Quartz & Fluorite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Very uncommon specimen of partially fluorescent etched single quartz crystal covered with much smaller translucent to gemmy quartz crystals, some of which are bi-terminated, and associated with partially embedded fluorescent gemmy purple fluorite crystals and rhodochrosite.  Collected by Gilles Haineault in 2017.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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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