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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Trough Vein, Stanhope, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Description

Buy any two fluorite specimens from this auction and I will add a third British fluorite of similar size, and different locality, free of charge. 

Gemmy (not obvious from images), greenish-yellow fluorite crystals with a scattering of tiny quartz on ironstone matrix. The main crystal is 1.0 cm on an edge. Good fluorescence under U.V.
From a rarely seen location.

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