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Quartz crystals with pink fluorite crystals, 17.5 cm. Collected in 1965 by Ernst Rufibach, director of the Gerstenegg-Sommerloch Tunnel, in Grimselpass, Haslital, Kanton Bern, Switzerland. A comparable specimen is in the Mim Museum in Beirut, Lebanon. Photographer: Russell E. Behnke.

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SpeciesQuartz, Fluorite
SizeLarge Cabinet
Dimensions17.5 cm
Added on02/13/2026
LocalitySwitzerland, Bern, Grimsel area
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In American Northeast page 39
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