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Fluorite On Quartz

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Fluorite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm
Description

Beautiful gemmy and pale violet fluorite crystals on gemmy quartz crystals together with sphalerite and chalcopyrite.

Fluorite is very rare in the mines around Baia Sprie.

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

Quartz

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