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Fluorite & Quartz

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Fluorite & Quartz

Collected in 1998

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Description
Locality: 
Granite Quarry, Shannapheasteen, Connemara, County Galway, Irish Republic (Eire)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 3.7 × 1.3 cm
Description

Thin quartz matrix with mineralisation on both sides consisting of colourless transparent quartz crystals with purple fluorite crystals dotted about the specimen. Unusually the fluorite crystals on one side of the specimen display a darker coloured octahedral habit whilst those on the other side are lighter in colour with a cubic habit. An unusual specimen from a rare locality.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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