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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Silberbachstollen Mine, Stulln, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

This is a very rare and interesting Fluorite specimen from a histroc mine of the Wölsendorf mininge area.

The Neue Hoffnung Mine was mined during th 1930s but never very successful. Therefore specimens from this old mine are extremely seldom to find.

This specimen show transparent pale yellow to pale violet cubes up to 1cm on matrix.

Neue Hoffnung Mine is also called Silberbachstollen.

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