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Fluorite & Sphalerite

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Fluorite & Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4 × 8 × 7.2 cm
Description

Translucent to transparent glassy pale purple Fluorite with gemmy reddish brown Sphalerite crystals. Zoned Fluorite crystals showing very fine stepped and etched faces. Some Fluorite crystals have sphalerite inclusions. There is some bruising and contact damage  that doesn't distract from the overall display quality of the specimen. 

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

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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