Opalized Fluorite
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: I am now out of the lower grade bulk material with not allot of the higher grades as well. There is no more of this available where I used to dig it so the price has gone up and soon there will be no more available.

click to enlarge - Pictured wet, on black background in bright light.

Opal Fluorite rough 7/27 01 - This is 8 pounds of various sized select pieces showing great colors and cutting potential (first 6 pictures). I couldn't get every piece to show in the pics. PLUS an additional 2 pounds of small and medium sized mystery nodules that you will have to cut to see what is there (last picture). This is the largest lot of high graded material I have offered and there is not allot more so it might be the last. Opening bid price is $20.00/pound - this material - if you can find it - is selling for $25.00/pound and up at shows and is generally not as good as this lot.
about 10+ pounds total weight
$260.00 + SHIPPING please email me