Description

A plate of glassy fluorite crystals with a featured penetration twin standing up over the rest of the fluorites. The penetration twin is an extremely light delicate lilac colour, while the rest of the crystals are colourless to perhaps the faintest blue. All of the fluorite crystals are sharp and highly lustrous. On the back/underside of the specimen there are many more lilac-blue fluorite crystals.

This is a very fine fluorescent specimen. The fluorite is a bright fluorescent blue under long-wave and medium-wave UV, and the calcite layer that makes up the middle of the “sandwich” of fluorite crystals on front and back fluoresces orange under short-wave UV.

This piece is from the Tracy Kimmel Collection, and she acquired it from Ernie Schlicter (that label comes with the specimen).

An aesthetic, classic German fluorite with nice fluorescence!

About Tracy Kimmel (click here)