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 rough (if you could find it) is about $0.50 per gram or $250/lb.

Opalized Fluorite / Beryllium Nodule / Tiffany Stone Rough: Pictured wet, on black background in bright light. Opal Fluorite 4/6 - 01 - two slabs This is very unusual opalized fluorite with what looks very much like flame agate - I have a cab from this nodule up now as well. I only have a little bit of this exceptional rough. I went digging for more of it and killed my car, so I'm reluctantly selling this to try to make up for my loss. small: 40 x 29 x 4 mm - 9.1 gram & big: 55 x 36 x 9 mm 27.9 gram $40.00 + SHIPPING SOLD