Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Fluorite & Calcite

Views:
Watches:
KFT49861

Fluorite & Calcite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Rieding Lake, Weißeck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.2 × 9.5 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.90cm
Description

One side is covered with calcite - here you can see looking out of the calcite a fluorite; a other side is covered with dark violet cubes of fluorite.

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

Calcite

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