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Fluorite

Ex coll. S. Labanti

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Description
Locality: 
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 7.3 × 5.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Weight: 
180.00gr
Description

In the '80s, during the excavation of a tunnel for the highway A26, there was a on-time finding of fluorite, galena, sphalerite and agardite inside the narrow veins of a schist. This specimen is one of the few collected there.

Blocky, rough fluorite cubes, up to 1.1 cm on edge, are sitting on the matrix. Note the fluorite is changing colour from grey-lilac to faint green, depending on the light source (incandescence and day light, respectively).

Rare material from Labanti's collection.

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

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