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Fluorite & Calcite

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Fluorite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Highway AP 7 Tunnel, Túnel de Sant Antó, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.4 × 2.4 cm
Weight: 
37.00gr
Description

Very nice sample of light pink globular crystals of fluorite on calcite matrix.

Fluorite was discovered for the first time in the Valencian Community in this field.
Today no longer exists the deposit and at the time only a few specimens were found and no crystal overcame a centimeter.

This piece is a rarity only few times found in the market.

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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