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Fluorite On Quartz

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Fluorite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mahodari, Sinnar, Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 5.4 × 6.8 cm
Weight: 
75.00gr
Description

Bright red fluorites are uncommon to find but this specimen is a very rare and an unusual specimen due to minute shiny black heamtite spheres  on the surface of the red balls. Such a combination is a very rarely found moreover this type of bright red fluorites are very hard and stable. The red colorration is due to a thin impervious skin (1 mm) of fluorite over the porous core. The red fluorite is set on a matrix of grey quartz.

 

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

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