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Fluorite & Quartz

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Fluorite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Huayllapon Mine, Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.3 × 4.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

A rich group of fluorite crystals, greenish to bluish zoning tone, transparent and brilliant. They show the cube faces modified by the trapezohedron. With small pyrite crystals. Very aesthetically disposed on a brilliant and defined cluster of hyaline to milky quartz crystals.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White