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Fluorite On Smoky Quartz

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Fluorite On Smoky Quartz

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Bianco, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Pink fluorite from the Mont Blanc massive is arguably the most iconic and sought after alpine mineral, even more so when associated with smoky quartz. This is a little gem of a specimen with numerous transparent/translucent, octahedral crystals. The transparency of the smoky quartz is high but this is not obvious in the images.

A great little specimen from a world famous locality for fluorite.

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
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