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Fluorite With Quartz

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Fluorite With Quartz

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Heights Quarry, Westgate, Weardale, County Durham, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

A thin bed of gemmy bottle green twinned and untwinned fluorite crystals with a partial covering of sparkling crystalline quartz.

This is a highly fluorescent piece.

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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