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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Summit Cleft, Weißeck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm
Description

Usually - caused by geological circumstances - fluorites from Weisseck are all etched, the discovery of the Ice-cleft was very important, because it produced highly lustrous crystals like the particular piece. The luster in perfect and reminds more to Northern England or China! The crystals are all sharp terminated, they show sharp internal zoning with different steps of dark violet and a thin light, colorless zoning along all edges. Minor calcite is also present. No significant damages 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