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Fluorite & Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Tule Mine, Melchor Múzquiz, Múzquiz Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.3 × 7.8 × 5.6 cm
Description

Waterclear Fluorites with stepped-grown faces showing a purple colorzoning near the surface partly overgrown by snow-white Celestine. A typical example from Melchor Muzquiz.

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

Celestine

Formula: 
SrSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bell's Mill, Bellwood, Blair Co., Pennsylvania, USA...