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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
De'an Mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.8 × 9.5 × 4.1 cm
Description

A really fine sample from this famous locality. The sharp terminated octahedrons show a greenish color with dark violet zoning along all edges. Very nice contrast to snwoy white quartz matrix, which covered green fluorite undernaeth. In excellent condition damage-wise.

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