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Fluorite Quartz & Feldspar Group

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Fluorite Quartz & Feldspar Group

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Description
Locality: 
Erongo Mountains, Karibib, Erongo Region, Namibia
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm
Description

The specimen is from a small recent discovery. It is developed as floater. The feldspat is sharp terminated and snowy white. The fluorite is of high translucency and shows a neon sea-green colored stepped crystal. It is set on a snowy white floater of Feldspat and assoziated with a sharp terminated Quartz crystal. A well balanced, aesthetic thumbnail in fine quality.

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