Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite
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Opal Fluorite rough 5/14/09 01 -
From my private stocks... 1 SUPER Nice - VERY LARGE - MUSEUM GRADE
GEM QUALITY ROUGH PIECE - Exceptional stuff. This is an AWESOME piece.
IT ALSO has these AMAZING CRYSTALS the likes of which I've
never seen in Tiffany Stone. The pics do not do it justice.
They absolutely scream with sparkles! is a superb natural specimen or could be cut into many
top grade slabs and cabs or you could think spheres with one
this big - this is one of the two large pieces I have left and
pieces like this are exceedingly hard to find in the wild.
In fact I haven't seen one this size and quality for many
years now. Don't pass
this one up. It might be your last chance to get one this
large and beautiful.- this is as good as it gets. AAA+++
about 10 x 9 x 7 inches - about 16+ pounds$1999.00
- buy it now at my asking price and I'll ship it free.
Otherwise, $41.00
domestic s/h and insurance.
I will ship this big rock to
USA only.
FOR PURCHASE, OFFERS, AND
OTHER INFO
email me here:
skyesgems@hotmail.com
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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.
UPDATE: This material has become really
scarce. Get it while you can.
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