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Fluorite On Quartz With Pyrite

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PMN643414

Fluorite On Quartz With Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Yongchun County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
53.00gr
Description

Two perfect fluorite crystals sit in a bed of sprkly quartz needles and are sprinkled by tiny pyrite crystals.
From the Yongchun mine - this piece is from the very early finds coming out in 2017 and showing a natural mix of blue and purple that made these famous as 'tanzanite' fluorite. Damage free purple in warm incandescent light. Sawn base.

 

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

Quartz

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

Pyrite

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