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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Poggio Balate, Termini Imerese, Palermo Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3 × 3 cm
Description

The location of Poggio Balate is known for fluorite for a while. But until 2018 only green fluorite has been found. That changed this summer as a team of local miners opend a pocket with blue fluorite. It was a limited find, but a few very nice specimens came on the market and I was lucky to pick some of the best ones. The crystals are very sharp and show a really fine internal blue color. The photos are done in daylight, I haven't used any backlight so you will discover the color in backlight yourself :)

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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