Another one my favourite gem is a fluorite.Fluorite is a mineral with a veritable bouquet 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 the hallmark color purple, then blue, green, yellow, colorless, brown, pink, black and reddish orange is amazing and is only rivaled in color range by quartz. Thats why I like it. Fluorite is magnificent, mysterious and enchanting. I guess it is one of the most beautiful semi-precious stones in the world because of unusual form and rainbow colours.

A fluorite crystal could have a clear outer zone allowing a cube of purple fluorite to be seen inside. Sometimes the less common habits such as a colored octahedron are seen inside of a colorless cube. One crystal of fluorite could potentially have four or five different color zones or bands.

The deposits of fluorite one may find in England, China, Brazil, Morocco, Bancroft, Germany, Mexico and number of other countries.

Every mineral collection owned by even the newest and youngest of mineral collectors must have a specimen of fluorite. Fluorite is by far one of the most beautiful and interesting minerals available on the mineral markets.