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Quartz Psm Fluorite

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Quartz Psm Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Animas District, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 9.5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Several fluorite octahedrons have been enrusted on this specimen. The green fluorite crystals lend a greenish hue to the epimorph.

There is a fragment of an earlier generation of quartz after calcite that was later filled with quartz and fluorite.

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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