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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Description

Beautiful green/blue transparent twinned fluorite crystals up to 1.6 cm on an edge. A great specimen from a classic mine for English fluorite. There is a small shallow chip on one edge but this is not obvious and does not detract from the aesthetics of the specimen.

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
Peter Crozier Minerals