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Fluorite & Calcite

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Fluorite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mines, Lavrion, Attica, Greece
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Gray purple to intense purple coloured fluorite cubes cluster of high glassy luster, partly covered by transparent and lustrous calcite crystals. Similar fluorite cubes but smaller are seen at the back side of the specimen.

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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