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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Cave In Rock District, Illinois, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.1 × 9.4 × 5.1 cm
Description

Large matrix specimen of fluorite from the Cave-in-Rock Mine in Illinois. The lustrous crystals exhibit a fine purple almost pink appearing colour with more satturated zonings visible at nearly all crystals.

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