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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
De'an Mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

An excellent little specimen consisting of sharp purple octahedral fluorite crystals with deeper purple cores (not obvious from the images). On top of these are scattered a second generation of lilac cubic fluorite crystals. Great contrast in a specimen  from a sought after Chineese locality.

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