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Dolomite On Fluorite

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Dolomite On Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Anna Mine, Stulln, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.5 × 11 × 5 cm
Description

Beautiful pale brown dolomite crystals violet fluorite crystals and lustrous eisenkiesel crystals.

One side is polished and shows beautiful violet-green-white fluorite.

Very good and rare old specimen - collected 1943

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White

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