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Fluorite & Celestine

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Fluorite & Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 7 × 5.1 cm
Description

Highly esthetic combination specimen from Clay Center in Ohio. A base consisting of several intergrown and lustrous crystals of celestine is perfectly balancing a hat of several sharp terminated and lustrous fluorite crystals. The fluorite shows intense orange colour with even some zoning visible at the edges. The bright orange colour is a bit more pale at the frame of the crystals and is deeply satturating to the center of them. It is even appearing golden-orange lustrous with some backlight which is shown in the first picture.

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

Celestine

Formula: 
SrSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bell's Mill, Bellwood, Blair Co., Pennsylvania, USA...