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Fluorite With Galena

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Fluorite With Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Burtree Pasture Mine, Cowshill, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 5.5 × 3 cm
Description

A very good fluorite with galena specimen. The fluorite cubes are sharp and up to 1.9 cm on an edge. The main cube have blue zoning on the outside. This specimen is from the collection of B. Yates and then John & Robert Lawson who bought from him (Jan 85).

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey
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