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Calcite Grossular & Fluorite

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Calcite Grossular & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Kontakt Adit, Konnerudkollen Mines, Konnerud, Drammen, Viken, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 6.2 × 4.7 cm
Description

An attractive specimen with numerous well crystallized, white calcite crystals, green coloured grossular and a 3 cm cavity with small clear quartz crystals and several small nice and purple coloured fluorite octahedrons. Specimen collected in the early 1980ies at the abandoned Konnerud Zn-Pb-Cu mines.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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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