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Fluorite Witherite & Calcite

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Fluorite Witherite & Calcite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 6 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
254.00gr
Description

A group of large fluorite crystals partially overgrown by calcite and micro-crystalline witherite. Under short wave UV light the fluorite crystals produce a bright violet fluorescence, the calcite a bright orange and the witherite a bright blue/white colour.

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

Witherite

Formula: 
BaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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