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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 4 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.60cm
Description

Fluorite is found in every color of the rainbow, but arguably the most desirable hue is pink/red.

The mining at the Huanggang Mine has given collectors in 2011 some really attractive pink fluorites that rival good pink fluorites from Pakistan, Peru, or Switzerland.

This piece is a fantastic octahedron with sharp faces and very good color, gemminess and overall attractiveness.

Truely a very good and hard to find specimen from peter Knijnenburg fluorite 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