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TQ49AH0: A novelty at Tucson 2018. A group of Fluorite crystal cubes between translucent and transparent, with a very intense and deep green color and marine-blue dichroism, clearly visible in sunlight. On a matrix coated by white Quartz. The locality is totally new and, even though Madagascar is a well-known mineralogical paradise, there were no more references to Fluorite occurrences other than the small crystals included in Quartz from Mandronarivo. The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2018, page 98
Mandronarivo area, Beroroha District, Atsimo-Andrefana Region Madagascar (08-11/2017)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 3.03” × 1.54” × 1.50”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”
Fluorescent long & short UV
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