[3] Fluoborite's crystal system is hexagonal, meaning it has one six-fold axis of rotation.

It is an iron mine in a contact metasomatic magnetite deposit.

The other type locality is the Huerta del Vinagre mine, Spain.

[6] It occurs associated with ludwigite, chondrodite, magnetite and calcite in the Tallgruvan, Sweden occurrence.

It occurs with mooreite, willemite, fluorite, hydrozincite, pyrochroite, zincite and rhodochrosite at Sterling Hill, New Jersey.