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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Rotherhope Fell Mine, Black Burn, Alston Moor, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4.3 × 3.8 cm
Description

This is an exceptional huge twinned crystal with amazing transparency and fantastic color - there are tones of orange, almost purple and great daylight-fluarescence. This was the second specimen in the famous fluorite collection of Robert Brandstätter. Most likely it is from the Rotherhope Fells or the Boltsburn mine. Ex Robert Brandstätter coll. No.2

Mineral Data
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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