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Goethite On Fluorite

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Goethite On Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 17.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

A large intergrown plate of lustrous and highly translucent fluorite cubes... Some with a Goethite coating. It has excellent contrast of the colors and deep purple phantoms to nearly all of the crystals.
From a pocket mined in 2002-2003.
Okorusu Mine Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia.

Ex Frank Griffiths Collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goethite

Formula: 
α-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.00.
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Hollertszug Mine (Hollerter Zug Mine), Dermbach, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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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