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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Marienschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.30cm
Description

Honey-brown and gemmy fluorite crystal cluster from the famous Marienschacht Mine near Wölsendorf.

The 1979 closed mine worked since 1925 and produced very beautiful fluorite specimen - especially outstanding honey brown "Honigspat" specimen came from this mine.

This is a nowadays very hard to get specimen of honey brown fluorite from this famous mine.

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