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Fluorite With Spessartine

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Fluorite With Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm
Description

A perfect, sharp, octahedral, purple fluorite crystal with very good luster and a nice phantom, is sitting aesthetically on a feldspar matrix and is associated with gemmy orange spessartine crystals.

Fluorites from Tongbei are very uncommon and this is a highly desirable combination.

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

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