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15th Jul 2012 18:34 UTCMr Farooq

this mineral is from northen area shegar pakistan.colour is lit purple 3 things in my mind some peoples says its flourite some says appatite & few says polosite

15th Jul 2012 19:24 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Looks like an out of focus fluorite. What is polosite?

15th Jul 2012 20:13 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Rob: pollucite?

15th Jul 2012 20:22 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Thanks Maggie, I doubt that it is pollucite.

15th Jul 2012 20:47 UTCPeter Haas

Morphology is best recognized in the first picture: Base shape is an octahedron, whose faces are capped by three-sided pyramids, and this is combined with a cube that truncates the corners into flat eight-sided faces. On the photo you look straight on one of the octahedron edges. Isometric (though slightly distorted) and therefore possibly fluorite.

15th Jul 2012 20:49 UTCPeter Slootweg 🌟

I think Rob is right. It looks like fluorite to me too. Color and clarity makes pollucite unlikely.

16th Jul 2012 02:26 UTCOwen Lewis

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Me for Fluorite too (as a guess). Here's a pic of a small Fluorite xtl in a Topaz host that sort of chimes:


18th Jul 2012 19:00 UTCMr Farooq

thank you very much for helping me.
 
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