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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Summit Cleft, Weißeck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

I guess most fluorite collectors know the famous summit cleft on Weisseck mountain. Inside the cleft there wer 3 caverns, the first one produced only etched, almost black and opac crystals, over 95% of material from the locality is from the third cavern. The second cavern was very small and produced only a fist full of pieces with a significant indicator - a purple center, framed with a sharp light blue zoning. This is one of them - the crystal is almost complete all around and measures 22mm on the edges. The colors and the zoning are spectacular and typical to only a few specimen from the second cavern, should be high ranked for rarity.

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