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Sellaite & Fluorite

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Sellaite & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Fontsante Mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.2 × 2.8 cm
Description

An intergrown masses of crystalline sellaite and fluorite, both are off white and translucent, but when exposed to a UV light the fluorite fluoresces dark purple and the sellaite a bright white to yellow colour

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sellaite

Formula: 
MgF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Gébroulaz glacier, Val Thorens, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France

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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