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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4 × 4 cm
Description

I have listed a number of Greenlaw's fluorites in my auctions over the past few years. This is by far the best. Yellow cores with purple outer. A quality specimen from a classic British locality.

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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