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Fluorite Calcite & Pyrite

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Fluorite Calcite & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 5.7 × 5.2 cm
Description

Just look at this awesome combination! The matrix consists of a layer of crystallised pyrite accompanied with snow-white calcite crystals. Cherry on the cacke is for sure the  perfectly centered placed and exposed fluorite crystal at the verry top of the specimen. What an esthetic beauty!

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

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5