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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Gisela Mine, Lissenthan, Nabburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
22 × 14 × 6 cm
Weight: 
2 400.00gr
Description

Beautiful pale yellowish fluorite crystals from an very old mine in Bavaria.

Gisela mine was closed in 1963 and this rare specimen was collected in the late 1950s.

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