Argentière Glacier area (Mont Blanc massif, Chamonix)
45.9728° N, 6.9622° E · ± 10 km
Fluorite from Haute-Savoie, France, with photos of specimens from this locality.
Minerals found here
Fluorite at Argentière Glacier area (Mont Blanc massif, Chamonix)
Pink octahedra growing on adularia, which the photo file page describes as unusual for the Argentière area.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
- Formula
- CaF₂
- Morphology
- Octahedra, near-transparent and lustrous, on matrix
- Typical size
- Photographed crystals about 1.5 cm on edge
- Color / luster
- Pale pink to rose-pink
- Availability
- Unknown
Geology of the locality
- Setting
- Alpine setting in the Mont Blanc massif; fluorite is recorded on the Charlet-Straton ridge close to the Argentière glacier, together with albite, chlorite, epidote and quartz.
- Region
- Haute-Savoie
- Country
- France
Coordinates (45 58 22 N, 6 57 44 E) are from a Mindat page for the Argentière catchment basin and are approximate for the glacier area. The exact cleft that yielded the photographed specimen is not stated.
Sources
- SRC-189 · Website
File:Fluorite-LTH9B.JPG (Wikimedia Commons file page)Lavinsky, R.M. (photographer) · 2010 · Wikimedia Commons - SRC-190 · Database
Catchment basin of Argentière, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie (Mindat locality page)Mindat contributors (citing Belot 1978) · Mindat.org (Chinese-language mirror)
Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.