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5.5" Green Cubic Fluorite and Calcite Crystal Cluster - Fluorescent!
This is a phenomenal cluster of green colored, translucent, cubic fluorite crystals and bladed white calcite from China. This cluster is apart of a new find in China and it contains pristine fluorite and calcite crystals. The fluorite crystals fluoresce a brilliant blue/purple color, while the calcite fluoresces orange under both short and long-wave UV lighting!
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
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 Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
SIZE
5.5" long, 3" wide, largest cube .86" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#93658