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Fluorite & Creedite

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Fluorite & Creedite

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Description
Locality: 
Navidad Mine, Indé Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 7.1 × 6.1 cm
Description

A very colorful combination of intense blue-green strong etched fluorite on glossy red-brown creedite. The creedite is formed like a bowl, the fluorite is perched in the center. Such nice combinations became more and more hard to obtain. No significant damages to report - overall just eye-candy.

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

Creedite

Formula: 
Ca3SO4Al2F8(OH)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
3.CG.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Colorado Fluorspar Co. Mine, Wagon Wheel Gap, Mineral Co., Colorado, USA