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Fluorite Dolomite & Pyrite On Quartz Var Eisenkiesel

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Fluorite Dolomite & Pyrite On Quartz Var Eisenkiesel

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Description
Locality: 
Moscona Mine, Solis, Asturias, Spain
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 5.3 × 2.6 cm
Description

A very beautiful, aesthetic specimen, an interesting combination of lustrous snow-white, bent, saddle-shaped dolomite crystals on colorless, very transparent fluorite crystals. The fluorite appears reddish because of the iron-stained quartz underneath. A very rare occasion. This is older material you don't get anymore - and in a very high quality.

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

Dolomite

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

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Eisenkiesel

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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