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2.4" Blue, Fluorite Cube Cluster - Pakistan
This mineral specimen from Pakistan contains a cluster of fluorescent fluorite crystals on a rock matrix that's filled with fluorite crystal chunks. Nice sky-blue phantoms can be seen when viewing the specimen from it's side, especially when aided with light.
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.
SPECIES
Fluorite
LOCATION
Balochistan, Pakistan
SIZE
2.4" long, 2.0" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#46018