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Fluorite & Amazonite

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Fluorite & Amazonite

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Description
Locality: 
Landsverk #1 Feldspar Quarry, Evje og Hornnes, Agder, Norway
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 2 cm
Description

An amazing color combination: purple fluorite crystals on rose-creamy microcline in intergrowth with intense green amazonite. The fluorite crystals are up to 1 cm in size. One of them has a small chip showing the beautiful zoned internal structure of these octahedral crystals.

A specimen very rarely seen with such a colorful paragenesis.

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

Amazonite

Variety Of: 

Microcline

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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