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Fluorite Spessartine Feldspar & Muscovite

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Fluorite Spessartine Feldspar & Muscovite

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Description
Locality: 
Wushan Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3 × 1.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Description

An excellent combo specimen! A sharp, octahedral, purple fluorite crystal is sitting on cream-colored feldspar crystals which are associated with blocky hexagonal muscovite crystals. Gem orange spessartines are scattered on the specimen and as a bonus, one of them is perched on the fluorite crystal!

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

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Feldspar

Group Parent: 
Feldspar Group

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White

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