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Fluorite & Siderite

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Fluorite & Siderite

Ex collection Storch, Roßleben
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Luise Mine, Rottleberode, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Colorless fluorite crystals on lustrous tan-brown siderite crystals.

Found in the 1930s by Karl Storch senior.

Historic specimen from the Storch collection in Roßleben - with original handwritten label.

 

Father and son were miners in Rottleberode, Harz

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

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

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