Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite Gem
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Opal
Fluorite pendant 11/10 01 - Super Nice, Large, Designer Cut, Rare
Purple Gem! Cut from some exceptionally
solid and beautiful rough with dendrites that is fairly
unique for this material. It's very hard, still opalized but
almost like agate. This stone is even more beautiful in
person. It has a nicely domed top and delightful hues of
purple, white and lavender with dark purple dendrites. The
back is pretty too and shown in the last picture. AAA+
Collector quality.
61 x 23 x 5.6 mm - 47 carat
This gem
was for sale loose but I decided to make a pendant with it.
This Rare Purple
Gem is wrapped in solid sterling silver with 14k gold filled
side wraps. Beautiful on both sides. This is the best wire
wrap I've done to date. AAA+
about 3.3 inches
$160.00 domestic (USA) shipping included
SOLD
Rare Purple Gem of 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".
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