5.8" Green Cubic Fluorite Crystal Cluster - Morocco

This is a tightly clustered specimen of green cubic fluorite crystals, collected near Alnif, Morocco. The faces of some of the crystals have a "digital-etching" pattern and most are covered in an iron-rich coating. The fluorite crystals have excellent blue fluorescent properties under short wave UV lighting.

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.

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SPECIES
Fluorite
LOCATION
Near Alnif, Morocco
SIZE
5.8 x 4.3"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#223890