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Fluorite & Quartz

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Fluorite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Wölsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.3 × 3 cm
Description

What an awesome colour contrast. Deep red quqartz var eisenkiesel which has over a dozen of sharp, lustrous and intense golden yellow coloured crystals of fluorite attached.

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