| Tiffany Stone / Opalized 
                  Fluorite / Bertrandite click  to enlarge:
 
  Opal Fluorite rough 6/23 - 10 - 
					Over 10 pounds! Very nice parcel of larger and smaller 
					pieces showing excellent potential. Just about every flavor 
					is represented here. This lot is certain to yield very nice 
					slabs and cabs. The pictures didn't turn out as nice as the 
					parcel looks in person. You won't be disappointed. :)
 10 lbs, 2 oz - $80.00 PLUS 
					MEDIUM FLAT RATE BOX SHIPPING 
				SOLD
 I went 
					digging and look what I found! It's been a while since I've 
					had some good Tiffany Stone to offer, especially in bulk. I 
					hope you enjoy them. Get them while they last. Rare Rough Opalized Fluorite!
                  This material is one of the most scarce, 
          beautiful and unusual stones in the world, this stone only comes from 
          one very small area of beryllium mines in the Utah west desert where 
          they mine (the 4th lightest element) beryllium for use in missile nose 
          cones and many other high-tech metallurgical uses. It is not open to 
          the public for collecting and very little of this material sees 
          anything other than the ore crusher to extract the about 1% to 2% 
          beryllium contained in the opal tuff. Try to find this exquisite 
          gemstone and you'll see that it's not only  very rare, it is 
          very scarce. It is a soft to hard opalized stone that forms in 
          very small to 100+ pound "nodules", composed of predominantly 
          opalized fluorite (blues, purples and whites), often with many 
          other minerals such as quartz, dolomite, rhodonite, manganese, 
          beryllium and other surprises. It often has a "crackled" appearance 
          and is sometimes called "Tiffany Stone", "Bertrandite" "Purple Opal" 
          or "Ice Cream Opalite". I call it Opal-Fluorite. |