Fluorite

Item Description

A single, translucent/transparent, sharply preserved octohedral fluorite crystal from this OLD USA CLASSIC location, the Wise Mine in Westmoreland New Hampshire. This lcoation goes back to the late 1800s as a source of fluorite for flux in steelmaking among other industries, and was the major USA source for a few years. It is currently owned and operated for commercial production to make jewelry material if you can believe it - cut green fluorites as a USA gemstone! And, it sells by the carat! So, your odds of finding and preserving a specimen today, under current operational goals, are minimal. They cut this stuff into pieces! This is an older specimen, in surprisingly good shape - most material from here is damaged and contacted. 108 grams or...500 carats of cutting rough fluorite, to use the terms of the gem trade. Seldom for sale, only seen in old collections, and valued highly