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Calcite Fluorite & Chalcopyrite

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Calcite Fluorite & Chalcopyrite

Ex George Fletcher Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm
Description

White calcite crystals part covered with pale blue and yellow fluorite crystals. The display face is sprinkled with little chalcopyrite crystals. An interesting and pretty little specimen collected in 1993.

 

Collected: 
1993
Boxed with Label
Condition
General: 
Good - locality specimen
Main Display: 
Good - some broken crystals
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Provenance

George Fletcher Collection

Tue, 2015-09-29 15:51 -- admin
Some History
Name: 
George Fletcher
Dates: 
present
Type: 
Collector/Collection
Specialisms: 
Derbyshire/Midlands, Weardale, United Kingdom
About

George Fletcher lives, worked and collected a lot in the Derbyshire, Peak distrct however as a prolific collector travelled all over the...

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