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Fluorite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
West Pasture Mine, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
7 × 11.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
222.00gr
Description

An ironstone matrix has a display face of apple green translucent fluorite scattered over minor siderite.  A few of the fluorites have a preferential coating mostly facing the same direction of micro clear quartz crystals. The lustre of the fluorite is very glassy, there are a couple of chips and some peripheral damage.

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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