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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: 
5.6 × 3.6 × 3.1 cm
Description

Cluster of bright fluorite cubes on a quartz druse. On the contrary to the classic fluorites from here, that present a yellow-green colour, these cubes are completely transparent and clean, and display a significant blue fluorescence with growing phantoms under long UV and whitish in short UV light.

Self-collected in 09/2009.

Mineral Data
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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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