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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

Glassy yellow fluorite crystals to 8mm on matrix. The specimen shows both single and penetration twinned crystals.

Nice miniature from this long inaccessible location.

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
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