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Fluorite & Baryte

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Fluorite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Fluorite cubes to 6mm, clear but with dark purple axes.

There are also several little clusters of creamy white barite blades.

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
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