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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Mare, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

Sharp colorless fluorite cubes on top of quarz crystals and on calcite from the famous Herja Mine.

Fluorite is very rare to find in the mines of the Baia Mare deposit.

This is a rare and very attractive specimen from a pocket found in 1996.

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