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Fluorite Calcite & Quartz

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Fluorite Calcite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Mahodari, Sinnar, Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.8 × 10.1 × 4.5 cm
Description

Botryoidal fluorite is generally very rare - only India produced lot of yellow spheres, but these red ones are an out-standing rarity. They farme one large free-standing calcite scalenohedron with light yellow color, resting on dove-grey quartz crystals. Should be high valued for rarity!

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White