DINO: Rare TIFFANY STONE, BETRANDITE - 1 lb. 3.8oz. - Opal / Fluorite Rough
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Description Beautiful Rare Tiffany Stone , (Betrandite, Beryllium) Gem Grade Rough from Utah. Gorgeous purple fluorite center in solid opal matrix. Total weight 1 lb. 3.8oz. Photos taken wet. Opal fluorite is a very rare stone of aesthetic and colorful patterns. These come from only one place on earth, the Brush Wellman beryllium mines area near Delta, Utah. This area is now closed to collectors. Tiffany Stone is composed of predominantly Opalized Fluorite (blues, purples and whites) often mixed with many other minerals such as quartz, chalcedony, dolomite, rhodonite, manganese oxides (blacks), bertrandite (white, yellow or pink) that contains the mineral beryllium {which is what the miners were looking for to make missile nose cones as the material does not heat up at high speeds}, beryl, solid white or translucent-yellowish opal and many other surprises. Not only are the Tiffany Stones rare because of their single source location, but also because so few ever made it out of the mines without being crushed for their beryllium content. The stones wind up in the overburden (mining leftovers) and go through the ore crusher to extract sometimes as little as 1 to 2% beryllium. Note: Our photos are taken with a Panasonic DMC-TZ5 Lumix camera under halogen lighting (in most cases). We do our best to get a true representation of our
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