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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Wushan Copper Mine, Ruichang County, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 9.5 × 6 cm
Description

Deeply coloured octahedral fluorite on a snow white etched quartz matrix.  The fluorite shows good purple colouration with green phantoms.

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