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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Jingbian, Zongyang County, Tongling, Anhui Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm
Description

I used minor backlight for photography - the fluorite crystals shows dark purple color, but with minor backlight it shows a mosaique of yellow and light lavender tiles with a sharp tin dark framing. The faces consits of tiny squares and the hat of snowy white calcite scalenohedrons gives a great visual impact to this very aesthetic specimen! No significant damages to report, part of the backside/bottom was on the rock.

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