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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood, Waratah-Wynyard Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 13.3 × 6.8 cm
Description

A lusterous specimen of prurple isolated fluorite cubes, whose bases at the attachment point to the matrix have been dissolved leaving a skeletal effect at the attachment points. Scattered amongst the prurple fluorite are numerous highly etched pale blue fluorite crystals.

Sulphides in the matrix have been completely replaced by silvery black schorl/elbaite acicular crystals

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
Earthstones Australia

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