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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Kakontwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.5 × 3.9 cm
Weight: 
61.00gr
Description

Purple incomplete fluorite crystals on a matrix of white calcite and black dolomite from the Kakontwe quarry. Fluorite is extremely rare in the D.R.Congo and only rarely crystal faces have been found in small octahedral crystals in this quarry. This specimen has some of such crystals faces. Very uncommon locality in collections.

Old specimen, #207 of the collection of Eudore Toussaint, a Belgian chemical engineer in the D.R.Congo from 1948 to 1971.

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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

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