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Fluorite On Eisenkiesel

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Fluorite On Eisenkiesel

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Description
Locality: 
Johannisschacht, Woelsendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 7 × 3.5 cm
Description

Lustrous sharp, black-violet fluorite crystals nicely set on red eisenkiesel crystals from a long closed mine in Bavaria.

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

Eisenkiesel

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0