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Fluorite With Pyrite

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FRN106906

Fluorite With Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan County, Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 12.3 × 6.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

Cluster of deep purple, octahedral and translucent fluorite scattered on the matrix. Some of the fluorite crystals decorated with microcrystal pyrite on the tip.

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

Pyrite

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