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Fluorite On Quartz

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Fluorite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Roland Mine, Stulln, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 6.8 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Beautiful zoned, violet fluorite crystals nicely set on quartz matrix from the historc mine in Bavaria, Germany.

Grube Roland were closed in 1961 and produced nice and unique fluorite specimen.

Ex Fritz Haller collection

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