1.4" Green and Purple Banded Fluorite Octahedron - China

This is a fluorite octahedron from China. Fluorite naturally grows in octahedral form, however this specimen has been cleaved by the miners along the cleavage planes of the crystal.

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
China
SIZE
Longest meaurement is 1.4"
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ITEM
#164594