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Fluorite

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RBR72217

Fluorite

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Locality: 
Rieding Lake, Weißeck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14 × 9 × 10 cm
Description

Under regular light the specimen is dark violet coloured. With backlight it shows blue, lavender and green colour. It changes it´s colour depending on different light-sources. Crystallized at the base and at the sides. The backside was on the rock. Crystals up to 8 cm across. It was found in the third cavern of the summit cleft, about 45m inside the mountain. The summit cleft is 2650m above sealevel at the South Slope of Weisseck Mt.

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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