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Fluorite & Calcite

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Fluorite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Zogno, Brembana Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 3 cm
Description

Multiple stepped crystals in dark purple colour, associated with tiny glossy calcite-crystals from the Camissimone Mine.

Fluorite from Italy are very hard to obtain and this is a very fine, aesthetic piece for the locality.

Ex-Martin Gruell Fluorite Collection.

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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