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Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Cloughmore North Quarry, Costelloe, Connemara, County Galway, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5 × 2.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
122.00gr
Description

A matrix of pink leucogranite, named from this locality as Murvey granite, has a display face with dark purple fluorite from simple cubic form to asymmetrical cuboctahedron and tetrahexahedron.  Some damaged crystals but otherwise a clean and interesting example from an unusual location.

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

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