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Fluorite Quartz & Petrified Wood

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Fluorite Quartz & Petrified Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 1.5 × 1.8 cm
Weight: 
22.00gr
Description

This is a piece of petrified wood from Chemnitz Hilbersdorf in Saxony. The fossil wood is Dadoxylon sp.. This is a conifer. The wood consists partly of blue fluorite and grey quartz. The petrified wood was buried and petrified during the Permian period during the eruption of the Zeisigwald volcano. Chemnitz is currently the only known place in the world where fossilized wood with fluorite is found.

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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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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