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Fluorite

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Locality: 
Granite Quarry, Shannapheasteen, Connemara, County Galway, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14 × 8.5 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Weight: 
643.00gr
Description

A superb large cabinet example of large cubic fluorite crystals to 3cm on edge from this now classic Irish fluorite find from 2016. The crystals display deep violet cores of earlier generation octahedral crystals and have the unusual green colouration to their corners. Linear violet colour-zoning is also visible within the crystals. Sadly supply of this material has all but dried up, especially specimens of this size and quality. The specimens came from a single zone of mineralisation within a small granite quarry which was opened up to provide aggregate for a nearby building project. The zone of mineralisation was exhausted and the quarry subsequently closed. LC

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

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