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Fluorite & Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
Granite Quarry, Shannapheasteen, Connemara, County Galway, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm
Description

An unusual specimen from this now classic Irish fluorite find for 2 reasons. Firstly the crystals display a nice dodecahedral crystal habit instead of the more common cubic and octahedral habits. Secondly there is a gap at one end of the specimen where a galena crystal once sat and where now, due to secondary alteration of the galena, there is a lining of white cerussite crystals.

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

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

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