Strontiofluorite | |
Category: | Halide mineral |
Formula: | SrF2 |
Imasymbol: | Sflr[1] |
Strunz: | 3.AB.25 |
Color: | Pale gray |
Mohs: | 4 |
Luster: | Greasy |
References: | [2] |
Strontiofluorite is a halide mineral that contains the alkali earth metal strontium and the halogen fluorine, a form of strontium fluoride. It can be considered a strontium-analogue of fluorite, which contains calcium as the dominant cation instead.
It is translucent and pale gray in colour.
It appears as cubo-octahedral crystals up to a size of 0.5 mm.
It is found in association with astrophyllite, burbankite, chlorbartonite, fluorapatite, fluorite, lamprophyllite, polezhaevaite-(Ce) and villiaumite.