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Fluorite & Chalcopyrite On Eisenkiesel

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Fluorite & Chalcopyrite On Eisenkiesel

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Description
Locality: 
Harz Mountains, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 4.5 × 3.8 cm
Description

Very beautiful specimen with yellow fluorite cubes, associated with colorless to red (eisenkiesel) quartz and shiny, golden chalcopyrite crystals. Some of the chalcopyrite crystals are covered with a layer of micro-crystals, probably quartz or aragonite or dolomite.
Just labeled "Harz" - the harz mountains are on the egde of Lower Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. May be mislabeled. Could be from the Beihilfe Mine, Halsbrücke, Freiberg, Saxony.

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

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Eisenkiesel

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0

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