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Fluorite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Blackdene Mine, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
7 × 10.5 × 10.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Description

Purple mauve fluorite crystals on a fluorite matrix which shows some green colouring underneath. Many small calcite crystals are dotted over the specimen with some very bright small, clear quartz crystals underneath as well.

Minor bruising is present but does not dedract from the specimen's attractiveness.

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
Crystal Vine

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