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2.45" Purple Fluorite Cluster on Microcline - Lake George, Colorado
This is a cluster of pale blue-purple fluorite cubes on a pink microcline-hematite matrix. It was mined from a private claim near Lake George in Teller County, Colorado.
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
Feldspar var. Microcline, Fluorite & Hematite
LOCATION
Lake George, Teller County, Colorado
SIZE
2.45 x 1.85"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#259942