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3.6" Stormy-Day Blue, Cubic Fluorite Crystal Cluster - Sicily, Italy
This is a cluster of cubic fluorite crystals that exhibit a stormy-day-blue color, collected from Poggio Balate in Sicily, Italy. It measures 3.6 x 2.7", the largest cube is .45" wide and the 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.
SPECIES
Fluorite
LOCATION
Poggio Balate, Termini Imerese, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
SIZE
3.6 x 2.7" entire specimen, the largest cube .45" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#183786
