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Fluorite

ex collection Manfred Jacobs
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Description
Locality: 
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 7.5 × 4.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.50cm
Description

Outstanding rare blue color and phantom crystals. Changes color under different lights (daylight, 'warm' yellow and daylight lamps). The blue color (little greenish) reproduced here comes closest to daylight. But with natural backlight it's more greenish blue. It has only a few minor dings. I got this specimen from ex opera singer Manfred Jacobs, who travelled the area in the seventies or eighties and bought it from a miner he met.

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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