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Stunning, 6.6" Lustrous, Green Fluorite Cluster - China (Special Price
Here is a beautiful 6.58" light-green fluorite on matrix from the Xianghualing-Xianghuapu Mines, China. The plate is made up of stunning cubic crystals with textured dodecahedral edges of up to 2.32" sitting on a matrix of gray barite. There are also a few well-formed small calcite crystals present on this eye-catching specimen.
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
Xianghualing-Xianghuapu Mines, China
SIZE
6.58x4.45x2.80"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#32420
