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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Rieding Lake, Weißeck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 7.5 × 5.5 cm
Description

dark violet, nearly black crystals with stepped edges - mined in the 3rd cavern of the famouse summit-cleft in the south flank of Weisseck mt. About 2650 meters above sealevel. When backlit it shows intense violet colour with using articial light, with led spots it shows incredible blue colour.

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