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2.35" Sparkling Yellow Fluorite with Dolomite and Pyrite - Spain
This is an incredibly packed specimen! It contains bright yellow fluorite cubes encrusted with tiny pyrite cubes and topped with white dolomite clusters, sourced from the Moscona Mine in Asturias, Spain. The fluorite fluoresces slightly pinkish under short-wave UV light.
About Fluorite
Fluorite is a halide mineral comprised of calcium and fluorine, CaF2. The word fluorite is from the Latin fluo-, which means "to flow". In 1852 fluorite gave its name to the phenomenon known as fluorescence, or the property of fluorite to glow a different color depending upon the bandwidth of the ultraviolet light it is exposed to. Fluorite occurs commonly in cubic, octahedral, and dodecahedral crystals in many different colors. These colors range from colorless and completely transparent to yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, or black. Purples and greens tend to be the most common colors seen, and colorless, pink, and black are the rarest.
Fluorite is a halide mineral comprised of calcium and fluorine, CaF2. The word fluorite is from the Latin fluo-, which means "to flow". In 1852 fluorite gave its name to the phenomenon known as fluorescence, or the property of fluorite to glow a different color depending upon the bandwidth of the ultraviolet light it is exposed to. Fluorite occurs commonly in cubic, octahedral, and dodecahedral crystals in many different colors. These colors range from colorless and completely transparent to yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, or black. Purples and greens tend to be the most common colors seen, and colorless, pink, and black are the rarest.
$29
SPECIES
Fluorite, Dolomite, & Pyrite
LOCATION
Moscona Mine, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
SIZE
2.35" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#258418
