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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Grimsel, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

What you see here are samples from the beginning of collecting alpine minerals. These 3 little fluorite-crystals were found in 1951, more than 65 years ago. The color is very good, typical pink with fine transparency. All of them are developed as floater, no damages. They come with the old label.

The larges one measures 3 x 2,5 x 2 cm.

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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