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Fluorite & Calcite

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Fluorite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan County, Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 4.2 × 3.5 cm
Description

Cluster of botryoidal green blue fluorite crystals seat on a thin layer of matrix with gemmy crystal of calcite attached on the side.

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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