4.6" Purple Edge Fluorite Crystal Cluster - Qinglong Mine, China

This is a 4.6" wide cluster of cubic fluorite crystals with purple edges that formed from a bed of quartz, collected from the Qinglong Mine in the Guizhou Province of China. Under shortwave UV, the fluorite crystals fluoresce a faint purple color.

One edge of the specimen has been cut flat for presentation purposes.

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 & Quartz
LOCATION
Qinglong Mine, Dachang Sb ore field, Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China
SIZE
4.6 x 3.2"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#186895