Fluorite Green

Fluorite GreenFluorite is one of the most variable of all crystalline minerals, occurring in shades of blue, green, purple, red and many other colors corresponding to their physical makeup and conditions when the mineral was formed. The name fluorite comes from its use as a flux, or chemical cleaning agent, in iron smelting and other metallurgy. Pure fluorite is clear, but most specimens have vivid color due to various impurities and are often fluorescent. With a

From the Ordovician age

While in its sticky gel state

Middle Devion period

Malachite is known for its deep green coloration

occurring in shades of blue

flat barite crystals arranged in densely packed rosettes in hues of rose

The spectacular display of colors these specimens display can be formed by two different geological processes: the oxidation of pyrite causing ultra-thin layers of iron oxide to form on the surface

Fluorite has long been used as a gemstone and is increasingly popular in the market

are found in a matrix of thick

Metacanthian Trilibite from the Mid Devonian Period

it is largely mined as an industrial ore across the globe

often radiating outward from a central axis