2.05" Blue-Green Cubic Fluorite Crystal Cluster - Morocco

This is a cluster of pale blue-green cubic fluorite crystals collected in Morocco. The crystals fluoresce bright blue-purple under short wave UV lighting. Portions of the specimen are also occupied by pale pinkish bladed barite.

This specimen comes mounted to an acrylic display base.

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
Morocco
SIZE
2.05" wide
CATEGORY
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ITEM
#293731