Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Quartz Psm Fluorite & Baryte

Views:
Watches:
SNJ86971

Quartz Psm Fluorite & Baryte

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Genoa Claim, Animas District, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 13 × 5.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
6.00cm
Description

This is a high quality quartz encrustation from a locality that is recognized for producing some of America's finest epimorphs.

Collected in the 1980's, this locality has been closed for many years. Dominated by a large fluorite octahedron with scattered barite encrustations, this specimen has very good aesthetics.

This is a rare opportunity to add a real Colorado classic to your collection. 729 grams.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
sanjuanmtnrocks