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Fluorite

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Locality: 
Langdon Mine, Langdon Beck, Teesdale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.5 × 11 × 6 cm
Description

Langdon Mine is a very uncommon locality and over the past few years, during which I have been actively seeking British fluorites as the main focus for for my auction pages, I have only acquired a hand full of specimens. The example listed here is in a different league to previous listings in both the overall size and the size if the cubes which are up to 3.5 cm on an edge. I have yet to see a Langdon fluorite that could be considered pretty and this example is par for the course however it makes up for this in stature. Considering the dimensions this is a class of specimen that is extremely hard to acquire. Weighs in at over 1Kg.

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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