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Quartz Psm Fluorite

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Quartz Psm Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Genoa Claim, Animas District, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 8 × 7.5 cm
Description

Collected in the early 1980's from a classic Colorado locality. The Genoa is considered to have produced some of the finest quartz epimorphs in America. Quartz encrusted octahedral fluorite and barite crystals stand up nicely with good relief.

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
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