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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Arnoldshammer Mine, Rittersgrün, Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 2.9 × 0.5 cm
Description

This is rare material from a very uncommon locality. There are several very old dumps, but all overgrown with forest, only at one small place it is possible to dig - but you have to be lucky to find anything. The particular specimen is well cut and polished and shows a vein of dark violet fluorite.

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