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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 9 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
633.00gr
Description

A superb plate of pale greenish fluorite crystals to 1.5cm on a bed of ironstone. Some of the crystals show complex stepped growth and they have good blue fluorescence under long wave U.V.

Boltsburn mine was one of the major fluorite specimen producers in its day.

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
Rare-Earth-Crystals

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Seller's terms and conditions

Payment must be made with 7 days of purchase and items will not be shipped until payment is received.

Full refund if you are not completely satisfied with any purchase and item is returned within 30 days. Buyer to pay return postage costs.

Please ensure you understand specimen size before purchase as I do sell material from micro to cabinet size.