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Fluorite & Quartz

Oxford Show '17

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Description
Locality: 
Lettermuckoo Quarry, Kinvarra, Connemara, County Galway, County Galway, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.2 × 3 cm
Description

Superb deep purple fluorite crystals of octahedral habit on a granite matrix. A lovely little display piece of excellent colour from a less commonly offered Irish locality.  

 

 

 

Condition
General: 
Good - some broken crystals
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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Peter Crozier Minerals