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Fluorite Quartz & Dolomite

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Fluorite Quartz & Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Radstädter Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.8 × 6.4 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Green zoned fluorite cubes with very small quartz and a carbonate, that look like dolomite. The color of paragenese comes from hematite, which isn't intergrown. On backside is an aura of yellowish carbonate between fluorite and matrix. The matrix is build by little bit fluorite, quartz and quartzite.

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

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White