FLUORITE PURPLE DODECAHEDRONS ON QUARTZ RARE LOCALITY Buxieres, FRANCE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:4337048 |
FLUORITE * purple dodecahedrons of fluorite on quartz ** nice specimen from uncommon locality *
size: 57 X 43 X 32mm
weight: 89g
6D1
origin: Les Rocs quarry, Buxières-les-Mines, Allier, Auvergne, France
Fluorite is a mineral with a veritable bouquet of brilliant colors. Fluorite is well known and prized for its glassy luster and rich variety of colors. The range of common colors for fluorite starting from the hallmark color purple, then blue..., green, yellow, colorless, brown, pink, black and reddish orange is amazing and is only rivaled in color range by quartz. Intermediate pastels between the previously mentioned colors are also possible. It is easy to see why fluorite earns the reputation as "The Most Colorful Mineral in the World". The many colors of fluorite are truly wonderful. The rich purple color is by far fluorite's most famous and popular color. It easily competes with the beautiful purple of amethyst. Often specimens of fluorite and amethyst with similar shades of purple are used in mineral identification classes to illustrate the folly of using color as the sole means to identify minerals. The blue, green and yellow varieties of fluorite are also deeply colored, popular and attractive. The colorless variety is not as well received as the colored varieties, but their rarity still makes them sought after by collectors.
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