Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite
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Opal Fluorite rough 7/20 - 01 -
Super Select 10+ pound lot featuring Larger, Excellent,
mostly faced, High Grade rough pieces representing nearly
every type and color available. Extremely good, high yield,
proven parcel with Classic, Brecciated and exotic colored pieces
including the rare red agate variety,
it should be fairly easy to make well over $1000.00 on this
batch just in cabs + there are collector grade slabs that
could be cut as well. It will yield many,
many outstanding slabs
and cabs. An extremely good parcel rarely
seen these days.
See ruler for size estimates.
biggest piece (shown above) is 5 x 4.5 x 3.5 inches
over 10 pounds total weight
The quality of this selection
varies from $20 to $50 (or more) per pound. At $25/lb you
can't go wrong. I expect this one will go quickly. *Keep in
mind I have very limited stock, especially of bigger pieces
like some of these. If you were waiting to get a parcel of
some the best this material has to offer, this might be the
parcel for you.* ~ Skye
$300.00
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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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