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Tiffany stone

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Description
Locality: 
Spor Mountain, Thomas Range, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.7 × 9.5 × 0.6 cm
Description

A cut and polished slice of silicified/opalized purple fluorite - so-called 'tiffany stone'. Probably named after a Tiffany Harris of Utah. Relatively new discovery. Very rare and unique material.

The white patterns are bertrandite.

Mindat describes it as 'A fine-grained purple to pale violet fluorite, usually with swirl patterns sometimes with small impurities of intergrown bertrandite, chalcedony, opal, and/or quartz.'

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tiffany stone

Mixture Of: 

Bertrandite

Formula: 
Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.BD.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Hardness: 
4.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0

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