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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Helene Mine, Brudersdorf, Nabburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 3.8 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Very nice old fluorite specimen from Fritz Haller collection.

A nice specimen of tiny honey brown, translucent fluorite crystals from a long closed mine in Bavaria, Germany.

Specimens from Helene Mine are very rare as the mine never produced larger quantities of specimens.

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