.6" Cubic Purple-Green Fluorite Crystal with Mica - China

This is a purple-green fluorite crystal that formed in association with tiny mica crystals. This specimen comes on a piece of mineral tack within an acrylic perky display case.

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 & Mica
LOCATION
China
SIZE
.6" wide
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ITEM
#166166