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Fluorite Quartz & Siderite

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Fluorite Quartz & Siderite

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Description
Locality: 
Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 8.7 × 4 cm
Weight: 
403.00gr
Description

A nice palm sized example of fluorite crystals with green and violet phantoms overgrowing siderite crystals and themselves partially overgrown with small bright quartz crystals. The fluorite crystals exhibit nice daylight and UV light fluorescence. A fine specimen from this now inaccessible, classic English fluorite mine. 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

Quartz

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

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

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