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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Copperthwaite Mine, Reeth, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 2.8 cm
Description

Another very rare locality. Lovely pale lilac fluorite cubes up to 0.9 cm on an edge. Many of the crystals have an attractive deeper lilac outline.

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