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Fluorite & Cassiterite On Muscovite

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Fluorite & Cassiterite On Muscovite

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Description
Locality: 
Weilasituo, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
3.00cm
Weight: 
63.00gr
Description

A special combination, purple fluorite octahedrons sit on muscovite and a large lustrous cassiterite cluster. The back also show some small colourless topaz. The mine; Weilasituo was explored and documented by B. Ottens and you can read all about it's interesting mineral paragnesis in Lapis magazine #43 Oct 2018.

We are happy to combine shipping or stockpile until it makes sense to ship due to shipping price. We only charge actual shipping costs.

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

Cassiterite

Formula: 
SnO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0

Muscovite

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