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Fluorite
WE 9–35, 2009
Location:
Ice Cleft, Weisseck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria
Description:
A crazy Weisseck fluorite which even as a Weisseck expert I would not attribute to the Weisseck if I were shown this piece. The only sure indicator is the individually transparent calcite scalendohedra that have grown in the middle of the specimen. The fluorite show cube surfaces with an infinite stepped edge growth in the slant. This results in the shape of an octahedron with a cube surface. The surface of the crystals is highly lustrous, covered with a 1 mm thick yellowish to colorless enamel-like fluorite layer. In transmitted light this fluorite shows unusual pastel colors in blue, green and purple. The piece comes from a small cavity in a green fluorite vein that I worked on the ground in 2009 about two meters deep from the entrance area. Four good pieces of this type were recovered. WE 9-46 also come from this small pocket.
Size: 13.5 x 10 x 4.8 cm