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Fluorite Psm Wood

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Fluorite Psm Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Artefact
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Weight: 
66.00gr
Description

This is a piece of a wood chip. It is made of violete Fluorite.

The wood was covered with Tuffite of the base surge formation (First part of the volcano eruption from the Zeisigwald volcano). You can see a nice Lapilli under the wood (red arrow).

The kind of wood is Agatoxylon sp. ( conifer tree )

The age of wood ist Perm = 290 Mio.

Chemnitz is the only known place of the world with Fluorite wood.

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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

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