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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

Bright yellow crystals with sharp terminated violet phantom showing highest lustre. Very rare material from the locality - usually only etched, not glossy.

This quality from the well known "bergmännisch glück flacher" mine came only from one small cleft and only at very low quantity.

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