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3.35" Gemmy Yellow Fluorite Cluster with Barite - Spain
This is an incredible specimen of lustrous yellow fluorite crystals with whitish tabular barite, sourced from the Moscona Mine in Asturias, Spain. Under short-wave UV light, the fluorite reveals bright yellow-white phantoms and the barite glows a soft yellow.
This specimen comes with an acrylic display stand.
This specimen comes with an acrylic display stand.
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.
$39
SPECIES
Fluorite & Barite
LOCATION
Moscona Mine, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
SIZE
3.35" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#297592
