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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Pulsifer Quarry, Mount Apatite, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 4 × 2.1 cm
Description

Very interesting specimen of a violet fluorite crystal on quartz matrix from the quarry which is famous for is purple apatite crystals.

From an old collection with old label on which the specimen wrongly marked as apatite.

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