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Fluorite With Wulfenite On Quartz

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PCZ156905

Fluorite With Wulfenite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Santa Gertrudis Vein, Santa Librada, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.3 × 2.7 cm
Description

A very pleasing combination of purple fluorite cubes and thin orange wulfenite plates on tiny quartz crystals.
Lovely specimen from a less common location.

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

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Quartz

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