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Fluorite On Pyrite On Baryte

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Fluorite On Pyrite On Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Tannenboden Mine, Wieden, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5 × 7 × 3 cm
Description

Aesthetic specimen. The surface of the solid barite matrix is covered with small cauliflower-shaped barite blades. These barite blades are coated with shiny thiny pyrite crystals. Violet fluorite cubes are also present in between the barite blades but are only partly covered with pyrite. Only very little damage to this classic specimen.

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

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Tectonica

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