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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Navidad Mine, Indé Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 5 × 1.8 cm
Description

Lovely, sharp translucent, purple octahedral fluorite crystals up to 1.2 cm across on a sharply contrasting white matrix. A great specimen from a classic locality for this habit.

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