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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Roland Mine, Stulln, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

Beautiful gemmy fluorite cubes of a violet color on matrix from a historic mine of the famous Wölsendorf mining area in Bavaria, Germany.

The famous Roland Mine was closed in 1961 and never produced large quantities of fluorite specimen.

Ex Fritz Haller 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