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2.85" Fascinating Calcite and Fluorite Cluster - Spain
This is an incredibly packed specimen! It contains beautifully formed scalenohedral calcite crystals on one side, mixed with colorless to yellowish fluorite cubes, sourced from the Moscona Mine in Asturias, Spain. The fluorite is largely coated with what we believe could be sphalerite: it fluoresces slightly orange under short-wave UV light.
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
Calcite, Fluorite & Sphalerite?
LOCATION
Moscona Mine, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
SIZE
2.85" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#258414
