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Identification needed

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Paolo Franchi

Identification needed
May 13, 2012 07:32PM

Registered: 1 year ago
Posts: 31

Mineral from Erongo mountains, Namibia, buy in a local market.

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Uwe Kolitsch

Re: Identification needed
May 13, 2012 08:17PM

Registered: 7 years ago
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Probably pale violet fluorite (note the excellent cleavage).

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Ernst A. Schnaitmann

Re: Identification needed
May 19, 2012 11:04PM

Registered: 7 years ago
Posts: 106

Definately massive fluorite in quartz - I doubt the Erongo locality, probably one of teh many undefined fluorite diggings somewhere close to Uis.

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