3" Purple Cubic Fluorite Crystals - Inner Mongolia

This is a beautiful cluster of purple cubic fluorite crystals on a micro muscovite crystal encrusted matrix, collected from the Yindu Deposit in Inner Mongolia, China. The crystals have spots of deeper coloration peppered throughout the their interior.

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
Yindu Deposit, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
SIZE
3 x 1.8"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#146947