Fluorite Green

Fluorite GreenFluorite is one of the most variable of all crystalline minerals, occurring in shades of blue, green, purple, red and many other colors corresponding to their physical makeup and conditions when the mineral was formed. The name fluorite comes from its use as a flux, or chemical cleaning agent, in iron smelting and other metallurgy. Pure fluorite is clear, but most specimens have vivid color due to various impurities and are often fluorescent. With a

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

Aquamarine has a hexagonal crystal structure and is highly prismatic

and as a precious metal for thousands of years

Creedite is a rare mineral in the hydoxylhalide group and is often formed from the intense oxidation of fluorite formations

where early very productive copper mines supplied much of the ancient world with the material

the Creede Quadrangle in Colorado

many of which feature coatings of fine

A relatively new and exciting addition to the mineral world

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Pipefish are a widespread group of tropical marine and freshwater fish most closely related to the more well-known seahorses

Barite is a mineral with an interesting history

incredibly brilliant pyrite and chalcopyrite