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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Navidad Mine, Indé Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 6.2 × 6.6 cm
Description

Until these pink fluorites were discovered in Mexico, Peru and the Alps were the only sources for pink fluorite, and the cost of a specimen such as this was (and still is) astronomical from those localities. So this piece is a quite inexpensive opportunity to acquire a rare pink fluorite. And it is a more uncommon piece. Most specimen are completely covered with crystals - one like this with isolated crystals is much more rare. The contrast of intense pink crystals to snowy white matrix is very sweet.

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