Opalized Fluorite One of the most scarce, beautiful and unusual stones in the world, this stone only comes from one very small area in the Utah west desert; the Brush Wellman beryllium mines, 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 oxide, 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. Wholesale value of this material (if you could find it) is about $0.50 per gram or $250/lb.

Click on a picture to view MPEG VIDEO CLIP Beryllium Nodule Freeform Geode shaped and polished display specimen. A truly Unique calcite quartz (see the quartz point in pictures) and fluorite crystal geode from deep inside a basketball sized rhodonite, quartz and manganese oxide beryllium nodule. 00 x 00 x 00 mm - 00 carat $150.00 + SHIPPING