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Fluorite

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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Les Droites, Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm
Description

Incredible thumbnail specimen from the French Alps. Here we have a perfect crystallised pink fluorite octahedron with a good satturated colour which is perfectly sitting on top of a piece of matrix. Definitely an eye-catching specimen.

Mineral Data
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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