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Fluorite On Amethyst

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Fluorite On Amethyst

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 137, Wolkenstein, Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 3.9 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.36cm
Weight: 
75.00gr
Description

Yellow cubic crystals of fluorite on a matrix of crystallized purple banded amethyst, with some black sulphides. Under long UV, fluorite fluoresces in blue. Super classic locality, rarely available nowadays.

Acquired in 2001 in Ehrenfriedersdorf by Wilfred Moorer (1945-2015), #3781.

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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

Amethyst

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Purple

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