Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite
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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.
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