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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Rieding Lake, Weißeck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 7 × 5.5 cm
Description

Lake Rieding is also located at Weisseck Mountain - 600 meters below peak elevation (2711m) at the North face of the mountain. It is a completely different locality as the summit cleft. While fluorite from the summit area is most times dark violet, specimen from lake rieding show pale green colour like the particular specimen.The matrix is - typically for Weisseck - Dolomite marple. Not completely undamaged, but in good condition overall. It was found in the 1980s and shows several green Fluorites an limestone. The crystals are green colored, some of them have a violet core inside which is a rarity for the location. Also, there are some very fine quartz crystals attached, perfect rock-crystal. No damages to report.

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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