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Fluorite & Celestine

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Fluorite & Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Tule Mine, Melchor Múzquiz, Múzquiz Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.6 × 9.7 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
13.60cm
Description

This is an ultrafine specimen, featuring medium purple coloured cubes of fluorite, perfectly and contrastful perched on a tabular, glassy  and colourless celestine crystal cluster, up to enormous 13.6 cm in diameter. Both minerals are sharp edged and in splendid condition. The fluorite measures slightly less than 2 cm, and it has classic stepped-growth faces so recognizable from Muzquiz. The Celestine is especially well-formed, with sharp, gemmy, and lustrous faces along each edge of the bladed crystals. This piece is exceptional for several reasons: the stark sharpness and quality of the Celestine, as well as the overall first-class aesthetics of this famous combination from the old mining here in the 1960s or early 1970s.

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...
Wendel Minerals

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