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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.2 × 3 cm
Description

Sharp, colourless cubes up to 1.0 cm on an edge. The crystals are reflective with exceptional transparency (not obvious from the images). Colourless fluorite from the locality is much less common than the coloured material that this famous British locality is known for. 

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