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Fluorite & Quartz

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Fluorite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Běstvina, Chrudim District, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.4 × 7.7 × 3.7 cm
Description

Yellow, glossy fluorite crystals covered with sparkling tiny quartz crystals from this very rare locality. Active from 1971 (geological survey), mined from 1973 to 1993, from 2003 only a mine water cleaning station of flooded mine run by Diamo company. Now closed and flooded, no new material can be expected - rare, hard to obtain. No significant damages to report, backside was on the rock.

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