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Fluorite Var Stink-Fluss

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Fluorite Var Stink-Fluss

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Description
Locality: 
Marienschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 11 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
670.00gr
Description

A variety of fluorite, especially from Wölsendorf, Germany, that emits an odor of HF and ozone upon grinding due to the internal presence of free fluorine gas and colloidal calcium and the interaction of components with water upon grinding.

This is a good old time specimen of deep violet to almost black fluorite crystals from the famous fluorite deposit in Bavaria.

Collected 1973

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

Stink-Fluss

Variety Of: 

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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