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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Surprise Mine, Cookes Peak, Luna County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.4 × 2 cm
Description

A marvelous fluorite octahedron with purple phantoms from Surprise Mine, Luna County, New Mexico, USA. It displays a well shaped crystal. It is translucent to transparent, with splendid dark purple phantoms and lighter purple areas. In very good condition. On acrylic base.

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Shipping weight up to 0.250 kg

#20252

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