Green Clear Fluorite

Green Clear FluoriteFluorite 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

from the Upper Silurian age

Pea Crabs of the genus Pinnixa lived in what is now modern-day California approximately 12-16 million years ago

with the largest known being over 10 feet in length and weighing over 3 tons

The name "Phantom" Fluorite is applied to Fluorite crystals with a visibly darker colored crystal core within

5" Weight- 16

Metacanthian Trilibite from the Mid Devonian Period

This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive

Amethyst is a form of Quartz which gets its beautiful purple tint from the substitution of silicone for iron due to irradiation

These unique fossil specimens show excellent articulation and detail of each body segment

During the Eocene

Incredible specimens of natural uncut aquamarine from Mount Little Xuebaodong in Sichuan

narrow shape resembling the interior and pitched roof of a cathedral