YELLOW FLUORITE CRYSTAL

YELLOW FLUORITE CRYSTAL

Beautiful, bright and unusual yellow fluorite crystal.  The least common colour among fluorites, from the only fluorite mine in Morocco.  An essential for the fluorite collector!

Location:
Djebel el Hammam Mine, Meknes, Morocco.

Dimensions:
3cm x 1.7cm x 2cm, 16g.

Fluorite: CaF2.
Named in 1797 by Carlo Antonio Galeani Napione from the Latin, fluere = “to flow” (for its use as a flux).  The term fluorescence is derived from fluorite, which will often markedly exhibit this effect.  The element fluorine also derives its name from fluorite, a major source for the element.  Fluorite is a mineral with a veritable bouquet of brilliant colors, it is well known and prized for its glassy luster and rich variety of colors.  The range of common colors for fluorite starting from the hallmark color purple, then blue, green, yellow, colorless, brown, pink, black and reddish orange is amazing and is only rivaled in color range by quartz.  Intermediate pastels between the previously mentioned colors are also possible.  It is easy to see why fluorite earns the reputation as “The Most Colorful Mineral in the World”.