Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Fluorite

Views:
Watches:
CR181201

Fluorite

With Antique Label

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6.3 × 2 cm
Description

This is truely a very good and beautiful old fluorite specimen from the famous Freiberg mining district.

A cluster of honey-yellow, translucent fluorite cubes, partly covered by tiny, sparking pyrite crystals and a second generation of pale pink fluorite crystals on the back side of this old time specimen.

 

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