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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Description

A nice specimen of transparent/translucent, yellow fluorite from the Hilton mine, famous for this colour. Crystals up to 1.5 cm on an edge. Hard to photograph and much nicer in person.

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