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Pyrrhotite Fluorite Calcite & Quartz

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Pyrrhotite Fluorite Calcite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Weilasituo, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 8.4 × 3 cm
Weight: 
246.00gr
Description

Very nice combination of large crystals of Pyrrhotite, well formed, with a shiny and quite attractive brass-like color and luster, and a side cluster of intergroen pale colored and clear Fluorite crystals, formed as a beautiful rounded aggregate, together also with a single sharp Quartz crystals, aesthetically perched on the side of the Fluorite cluster and a thin layer of creamy Calcite crystallization at the back of the specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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