SEDAGEMS 

 COLOURFUL FLUORITE 

This is a very attractive natural stone.

Weight 35.20 cts app

Size 20 x 13 x 7 mm app

Note: Fluorite is a soft gem. This gem has some pits on the surface which can be seen in the photo

Fluorite is a mineral with a amazing array of brilliant colors. Fluorite is well known and prized for its glassy luster and rich variety of colors. The range of common colors for fluorite starting from  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".

The many colors of fluorite are truly wonderful. The rich purple color is by far fluorite's most famous and popular color.  Sometimes  specimens of fluorite and amethyst with similar shades of purple are used in mineral identification classes to illustrate the folly of using color as the sole means to identify minerals.