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Calcite On Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Cave In Rock District, Illinois, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6 × 6 cm
Description

This is a very fine Illinois calcite on fluorite featuring multitudinous colorless to amber calcite crystals scattered about a deep purple and yellow fluorite cluster. The brilliant luster, combined with the variation in size of the calcite crystals, gives this piece a showy and very flashy appeal. The piece is in pristine condition, with the only cleavage along the base where it was removed, as shown in the photos. The underside also reveals a deep color zonation in the fluorite changing from yellow to royal purple. This excellent small cabinet specimen sits well with no support.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

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

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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