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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Erongo Mountains, Karibib, Erongo Region, Namibia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm
Weight: 
124.00gr
Description

Group of zonar purple colored fluorite crystals with a very uncommon columnar habit. The center crystal has six edges at the bottom and five on the tip. The crystals all show several different kinds of inclusions - gas bubbles, minor, acicular schorl crystals and something which could be a dissolved schorl crystal or a strange kind of tube.

The side crystals are sharp tipped, shaped like distorted scalenohedrons. The crystals seem to be the result of a weird kind of twinning. Crystals of this kind are very rare and unique to this locality and this one is outstanding, not only for the size of it.

Unfortunately we have to say that this specimen is professionally repaired. You have to really search for it to find out where.

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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