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Fluorite

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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: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.5 × 11.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.50cm
Weight: 
875.00gr
Description

Deep violet fluorite crystals partely covered by redish quartz microcrystals from the famous fluorite deposit in Bavaria.

Mine was closed in 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