1.9" Fluorite Cube Cluster with Calcite Crystals- Pakistan

This beautiful blue-violet fluorite specimen from Pakistan displays an incredible complex rhombohedral pattern, partially hidden beneath a small bed of medium sized calcite crystal terminations. Well defined phantoms can also be seen when the specimen is viewed against a light background or backlight.

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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Fluorite and Calcite
LOCATION
Balochistan, Pakistan
SIZE
1.9" long, 1.3" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#38650