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2.55" Purple Fluorite on Peach-Pink Microcline - Lake George, Colorado
This is a beautiful, peach-pink microcline crystal cluster dotted with purple fluorite cubes, which fluoresce a bright purple under short-wive UV light. It was mined from a private claim near Lake George in Teller County, Colorado. It has been cut flat on two sides for multiple style of presentation.
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
Feldspar var. Microcline & Fluorite
LOCATION
Lake George, Teller County, Colorado
SIZE
2.55 x 1.25"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#259939
