Fluorite

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

521 million years old

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

Aquamarine has a hexagonal crystal structure and is highly prismatic

Aquamarine is a form of Beryl crystal long sought after as a gem and precious stone due to its beautiful blue-green hue and clarity

and as a precious metal for thousands of years

Our specimens consist of fine crystals spread across a matrix in shades of both blue and green

Pure fluorite is clear

large calcite crystals and the dusting of fine gold from the pyrite is unique to specimens from this specific region of China and have not been found anywhere else

roughly 20 million years ago

Fluorite has long been used as a gemstone and is increasingly popular in the market

Paradoxides sp

where some truly impressive specimens like this very rarely emerge from the mines