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Fluorite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Touroug-El Hamda Quarries, Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

This fluorite was self-collected in 2009 at the Touroug-El Hamda quarry, Morocco. It is colourless which is uncommon in this locality. It has good lustre and net cubic habit. This fluorite presents a very intense blue fluorescence under long ultraviolet light and is scarcely fluorescent under short UV light, also uncommon in the locality.

Ex Iván Blanco 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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