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Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Afghanistan I apologize for the vagueness of this description - a friend picked this set up from a dealer who was selling this amazingly pretty fluorite without being given the locality. At any rate, what you have here is an emerald-cut stone of very unusual beauty and gemminess (for fluorite) measuring 1.5 cm, along with a euhedral specimen of the raw ... |
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Nilaw-Kolum Pegmatite Field, Laghman (Lagman; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan Complex Fluorite crystals, with predominant cubic forms, showing a light green color and on a Quartz matrix. Nilaw-Kolum Pegmatite, Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Found in ±1993 Specimen size: 9 × 6.4 × 4.3 cm Main crystal size: 1.8 ×1.7 cm Very fluorescent long & short UV Former Jan Buma collection. Number 931106 |
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Fluorite : CaF2, Quartz : SiO2 | |
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Paprok, Nuristan Province (Nurestan; Nooristan), Afghanistan This locality is well known worldwide for its Elbaite specimens but occasionally some Fluorite specimens have been collected. The sample we are offering shows Fluorite crystals with very aerial and well defined faces and edges. Color varies between white to uncolored, with slight violet tones. On a Quartz matrix. Paprok, Konar, ... |
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Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Capopo, Lucala City Council, Malanje Province, Angola Sample crystallized with 9x6x5cm - October of 1973 |
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Fluorite : CaF2 | |
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Capopo, Lucala City Council, Malanje Province, Angola Sample crystallized with 14x7x6cm - October of 1973 |
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Fluorite : CaF2, Microcline : K[AlSi3O8] | |
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Papachacra, Belen Department, Catamarca, Argentina Octahedral Fluorite on Microcline. Size: 4.0 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm. Size of the largest crystal: 2.0 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm. |
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Fluorite : CaF2, Microcline : K[AlSi3O8] | |
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Papachacra, Belen Department, Catamarca, Argentina Other view. |
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Fluorite : CaF2, Quartz : SiO2, Orthoclase : K[AlSi3O8], Hematite : Fe2O3 | |
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Papachacra, Belen Department, Catamarca, Argentina Surprising is the uncommon paragenesis on the sample with cubic crystals of Fluorite coexisting with a matrix of Smoky Quartz, prisms of Orthoclase and small crystals of Hematite. We also call attention on the locality where Fluorite is not common. Formación Papachacra, Departamento Belén, Catamarca Argentina Found in ±2004 Specimen ... |
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Papachacra, Belen Department, Catamarca, Argentina The locality is not so common. Crystals are octahedral and have well defined faces and edges and a curious and irregular distribution of their color, practically uncolored in some zones, and they have spots of an intense violet color in some other. On the matrix there are twinned crystals of Orthoclase and small crystals of smoky ... |
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Fluorite : CaF2, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) : SiO2, Microcline : K[AlSi3O8] | |
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Papachacra, Belen Department, Catamarca, Argentina Specimen size: 7.0 x 6.1 x 2.0 cm. Size of the longest Fluorite's crystal: 1.0 cm. |
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