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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Gualba Quarries, Gualba, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 3.5 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

Uncommon locality in fluorite collections, this is a marble block covered by transparent fluorite crystals and minor quartz. The main form is the cube, with interesting helicoidal growth patterns on the surfaces.

Found 1991 by Manuel Moreno, collector from Barcelona.

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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