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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Mauterndorf Quarry, Mauterndorf, Taurach Valley, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.4 × 10.8 × 8 cm
Description

A great Austrian classic! The locality was discovered in the 70ties and is non-productive since decades. So only low quantity of this old material found a way to some collections. The intense blue crystals are etched and show spectacular contrst to brown-red matrix.

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