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Fluorite & Galena

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Fluorite & Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Blackdene Mine, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 10 × 6.5 cm
Description

Beautiful old specimen with perfect crystallized galena crystals on  gemmy violet fluorite crystals.

Ex Walter Rieger collection, Germany

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey