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Armenite Celsian & Fluorite

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Armenite Celsian & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Su Zurfuru Mine, Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm
Description

Good greenish armenite crystals with colorless/white crude crystals and crystal fragments of barium bearing feldspar mineral celsian and pale purple fluorite on reddish albite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Armenite

Formula: 
BaCa2Al6Si9O30·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.CM.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Armen Mine, Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Celsian

Formula: 
BaAl2Si2O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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
Loranth Minerals

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