Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite
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Opal Fluorite rough 1/16 01 -
40 pounds of Top Grade Tiffany Stone. This is a money making
lot. 1st picture is dry - the rest are wet. Every piece ranges
from very nice to excellent and exceptional. The largest piece
is about 5 pounds and shows extremely good potential (6th
through 9th pictures). You absolutely can not go wrong here.
This is the large majority of the best of this material I
have. About half or more is the highly sought after brecciated
material - I estimate you could easily tipple your investment
selling cabs and slabs from this lot - You are not likely to
see another large high grade lot anything like this one. The
pictures don't even do it justice. Whoever gets this lot will
be very pleased. Price is $20/pound - wholesale value is
$25.00/pound and up.
approximately 40 pounds total weight
Shipping and handling will be
$30.00 USA domestic (shipped in two boxes) plus optional
insurance. International shipping determined after auction end
- send me your shipping info and I'll get you a quote.
$800.00 plus $30.00 domestic* s/h plus
$9.00 insurance:
Total = $839.00 SOLD
* For international shipping email
me with your shipping info and I'll send you an invoice with
correct shipping charges.
You are bidding on
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: I am now out of the lower grades and
bulk material and not much of the higher grades either. There is no more of this
available where I used to dig it so the price has gone up and soon I will
be no more available.
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