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Fluorite

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Fluorite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Fluorite Mine, Rehrlköpfl, Krimml, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18 × 14.5 × 6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Weight: 
1 816.00gr
Description

A fine and large display specimen of green-blue Fluorite crystals on limestone matrix from a classic Austrian locality. One side shows isolated crystals on yellowish Calcite-microcrystals, the other side is almost completely covered with Fluorite. Mined in the 1960s.

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