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Fluorite Sphalerite & Calcite

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Fluorite Sphalerite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 7 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
490.00gr
Description

An old classic from USA: violet transparent fluorite on sphalerite. The sample shows some well defined sharp transparent violet crystals of fluorite (the bigger about 10 mm) gently set on wonderful big and shining sphalerite crystals (2 cm and more). A nice small group of white baryte crystals set on the top of the sample complete the showy piece. Nice an big sample in very good conditions.

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

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Calcite

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

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Italy
$11
Europe
$14
USA, Rest of World
$18
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All samples will be shipped via UPS courier. Shipping rates include: shipping costs, professional packaging. For sample data, refer to your reserved area. We do not include sample tickets for auctions. The web below and the tracking number of the package you will find in the notes on the invoice. The delivery of this service can vary from 4 to 20 days (on average 7-10), depending on the country of destination and the time of year (e.g. Christmas time, it is very stressful for couriers and post offices) invoice. For sample data, refer to your reserved area. We do not include sample tickets for auctions.

Notes

For cumulative shipments of multiple samples won, even in different auctions, it should be noted that:
- for each sample added to the shipment in Europe, € 5 will be added
- for each sample added to the expedition in the Americas and the rest of the world, € 5 will be added
- for each sample added to the shipment in asia and oceania 5 € will be added

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Seller's terms and conditions

We are professional resellers, and the guaranteed quality of each sale, and customer satisfaction, is our goal. We are not responsible for any damage suffered by the sample in transit. With the exception that the package arrives in poor external condition. We pack all the samples in a way and with super tested professional systems. But in any case you declare with a video, the opening of the package. The return of a sample for various reasons. It must be approved by us. And in any case the reimbursement will be net of expenses. Photos: All the photos we posted as examples were taken with professional cameras. Photos are not retouched with software, to enhance or alter the appearance of the samples. We try to offer photos, more realistically closer to the reality of the sample.

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