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2.5" Purple, Cubic Fluorite Crystal Cluster - Berbes, Spain
This is an attractive, 2.5" wide, stepped-cubic fluorite crystal cluster on quartz that was collected from the famous Berbes mining area in Asturias, Spain. The crystals exhibit gorgeous purple coloration and have black inclusions scattered throughout.
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.
SPECIES
Fluorite & quartz
LOCATION
Berbes Mining Area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
SIZE
2.5 x 2.2"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#183849
