Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite
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Opal Fluorite rough 8/9 05 -
Up for your consideration 1 SUPER Nice - EXTRA LARGE MUSEUM
/ GEM GRADE ROUGH CHUNK - Exceptional piece. Classic
Purple and Exotic Brecciated colors - a very solid piece -
will yield many slabs and cabs and could yield one or more
very valuable spheres - once in a lifetime chance on this
one - you
will not see many like this.
about 9.5 x 5.5 x 4 inches - about 14.5 pounds
$420.00 plus
$17.00 domestic s/h/i
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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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