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Fluorite On Siderite

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Fluorite On Siderite

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Description
Locality: 
Mega Horio, Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.8 × 3 cm
Description

The piece comes from a very limited find with gem and twinned-like fluorite cubes on matrix of sharp siderite crystals!The fluorite crystals are lustrous and show patterns on the faces!The color is a light smokey brown and is well fused in the crystals, without making them foggy, they are completely gem!The balance is perfect, with the smokey crystals perched in the middle of the matrix and the biggest is on top of the rest!The siderite crystals are dark brown and bent in form.The piece has no damage and the quality is superb!

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

Siderite

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

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