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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Bach Mine, Bach an der Donau, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.7 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Description

The large fluorite crystals to 1.2 are on massive fluorite matrix. This crystals are overgrown with small quartz crust. And on this quartz grown a second generation of colorless fluorite cubes again.

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