3.5" Green Cubic Fluorite Crystal Cluster - China

This is a nice green fluorite crystal cluster from the Hunan Province, of China. The crystals are beautifully transparent and many of the crystals have green zoning. Under UV lighting, these crystals exhibit purple fluorescence.

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
LOCATION
Xianghuapu Mine, Hunan Province, China
SIZE
3.5 x 2.7"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#112635