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Fluorite Quartz & Scheelite

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FRN106918

Fluorite Quartz & Scheelite

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Description
Locality: 
Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.9 × 5.1 × 4.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

Specimen is completely covered by gemmy green lustrous cubic fluorite and transparent crystals of quartz. Group of lustrous brown and translucent scheelite crystals as large as 1.7cm nestled amongst these fluorite and quartz crystals

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

Scheelite

Formula: 
Ca(WO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bispbergs Klack, Säter, Dalarna, Sweden
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