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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Description

This is a beautiful small fluorite specimen from the famous locale in Germany.

A lustrous and gemmy blue-violet fluorite octahedron on a bed of quartz crystals with minor cassiterite.

Very old specimen with nice old label.

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