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Fluorite On Quartz

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Fluorite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Hermine Mine, Lissenthan, Nabburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 2.8 × 1.7 cm
Weight: 
17.00gr
Description

Certainly not the largest collection specimen of the hermine mine, but certainly one of the most beautiful. This small specimen contains clear fluorite cubes with purple phantoms or are purple zoned. The fluorite cubes sit on quartz, sometimes with individual quartz crystals on fluorite, see the first picture.

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