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Fluorite & Agate

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Fluorite & Agate

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Description
Locality: 
Sulzbach an der Donau, Donaustauf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 6 × 4.7 cm
Description

Deep purple, distorted fluorite crystals on clear quartz crystals in a druzy matrix with brown-red banded agate.

Very aesthetic and interesting specimen from a new find in March 2021.

Usually this material is very dense and only a small amount found with free crystallised fluorites.

Beautiful !  My best specimen

Please note the article about this new discovery in Lapis magazine 4/2021 

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

Agate

Variety Of: 

Chalcedony

Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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