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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Johannesschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Schwarzach bei Nabburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
20 × 12 × 7.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.50cm
Description

Beautiful intense honey brown fluorite specimen from the famous Johannesschacht mine near Wölsendorf in Bavaria, Germany.

The mine was closed in 1979 and produced some fantastic golden-brown fluorite specimen.

A very colorful and good display specimen with some contacts from Fritz Haller collection - acquired 1971

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