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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Dalefoot Level, Mallerstang, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm
Description

Crystals of colourless to pale lilac fluorite on limestone matrix. From a small working outside the usual fluorite producing areas of the north Pennines.

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