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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Langdon Mine, Langdon Beck, Teesdale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6 × 5 cm
Description

Langdon mine is a less frequently offered British fluorite locality. This is a good sized specimen with purple fluorite crystals to 1.2cm on an edge. They have some frosting on the faces and show good fluorescence under U.V.

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