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Fluorite With Quartz

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Fluorite With Quartz

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Buranga Pegmatite, Gatumba, Ngororero District, Western Province, Rwanda
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 4.9 × 4.7 cm
Weight: 
190.00gr
Description

Green aggregate of rounded fluorite crystals with some cavities showing stepped faces, richly covered by translucent quartz crystals. Intense fluorescence under long and short UV light. Fluorite samples are extremely rare from Buranga. The sample was collected in 1966 by Professor Albert Delvaux (1919-1998).

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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

Quartz

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

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