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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 cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.8 × 5.8 × 3 cm
Weight: 
88.00gr
Description

Here is a very representative piece of this small deposit, the life of this site was very short and when was finished the construction of the tunnel, the entire field was covered with asphalt and concrete, and it is now impossible to find other pieces, only few pieces appeared at this time, but for the geology of the region were very important because here was cited for the first time fluorite in the Valencian Community.
This specimen is composed of a group of botryoidal  fluorite of a clear purple color on a matrix of white calcite crystals of very bright.

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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