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Fluorite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Bäuerin Mine, Schottenberg, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Description

A nice floater aggregate of interlocked fluorite cubes of yellow and green translucent cores and a very thin intense purple rim at the outermost zone. Some tiny golden octahedral crystals of pyrite decorate the surface of the fluorite.

Classic Erzgebirge specimen, acquired in 2013 it is the specimen #990 of the Ernst Thälmann collection.

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

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