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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Stanhopeburn Mine, Stanhope, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 3.4 × 2.2 cm
Description

An isolated, complete, free-standing twinned fluorite (15mm on edges) set on small matrix and further smaller inter-grown crystals. The main crystals show excellent clarity, the faces are glossy. Under daylight teh center show a dark blue phantom. The intense green sharp zoning along the edges also looks great!A very aesthetic, well formed specimen is fine quality from this old defunct locality. No significant damags to report.

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