Fluorite Mixed on Matrix

Fluorite Mixed on MatrixFluorite 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

Also known as antimonite

It is found in a wide range of shades from deep purple to pale violet and even pink

It is found in a vast array of forms

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

Chrysocolla is in the copper family

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

but most specimens have vivid color due to various impurities and are often fluorescent

occurring in shades of blue

but chemical impurities can turn it into a range of spectacular colors

Approx 420 million years old

Approx size of fossil - 4

Malachite has been mined for both use in copper tools and for ornamentation and jewelry