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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Berta, El Papiol, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 10 × 2.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Pretty, bottle-green fluorite octahedrons cover the granodiorite matrix on this fine specimen from a famous and ancient Spanish silver-lead-zinc-iron mine.
These came out in the late1980s. The sharp octahedra reach 1 cm and are gemmy and lustrous.
Excellent purple fluorescence.
Ex Otto Scheck 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