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Eisenkiesel With Fluorite

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Eisenkiesel With Fluorite

Classic Locality

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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: 
13.5 × 10 × 3.5 cm
Description

Beautiful old time eisenkiesel specimen perimorph after baryte blades and with pale violet fluorite cubes on the back side from the classic and long closed Johannesschacht mine near Wölsendorf in Bavaria, Germany.

Ex Fritz Haller collection.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eisenkiesel

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0

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