Experience the rare beauty of Purple Rain Pocket Fluorite Clusters. This mine closed in 2022 after depleting all the fluorite minerals. That means once these are gone, there won't be any more! Collectors are scooping these up as they will be worth a lot!
These are daylight fluorescent, one of my favorite kinds of magic that certain fluorescent minerals have! This means that simply bringing it outdoors will turn the fluorite a deep purple colors as the suns UV rays are enough to make the crystal fluoresce. Under long wave UV it fluoresces bright blue.
Throw in stepped surfaces, screw dislocation, mosaic-like etchings, imprinting left over from early generation Quartz, and you have a complete specimen for the aspiring collecto
Purple Fluorite Specimens
Purple Rain Pocket, Lady Annabella Mine, Eastgate, Weardale Co., Durham, England