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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Orange River, Karas Region, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 1.8 cm
Description

An interesting and attractive little specimen with pink/purple zoned crestals on one half and almost colourless crystals on the other. Both types of crystals are up to 1.2 cm on an edge. Nice little specimen from the less commonly offered Namibian side of the river.

 

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