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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Zinggenstöcke, Oberaar Lake, Grimsel, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1 cm
Weight: 
5.00gr
Description

Choice octahedral fluorite thumbnail crystal with a very saturated purple color and numerous recrystallization faces on the main display side of the specimen. Closeups show that the small faces are new modified octahedrons, whose transparency frequently go through the entire specimen, plus frequent purple tips.

An excellent specimen from this classic Swiss locality, with a very unusual color pattern. 

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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