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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Marienschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.70cm
Description

Good and old specimen of deep violet fluorite crystals with minor pyrite crystals from the famous fluorite deposit in Bavaria.

Collected 1978

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