RARE Purple Tiffany Stone / Opal Fluorite Authentic Utah One Of A Kind Piece

  

This is a "New Stock" piece that has been polished and is ready to be added to a discerning collector's collection. This is 100% authentic, and sourced from Utah. It will be packaged with care.

A little History lesson on Tiffany Stone. Tiffany Stone comes from a remote Brush Wellman Mine, in Utah, which used to be open for collectors, and has been closed to the public for many years.

There is no other place on earth to get it and when it's gone... What is called "Old stock" material came from the miners bringing out pieces or from the people who were allowed to collect the rock off private land.

Small amounts of "New stock" material are rarely being made available by the mine owners. There is precious little of TIFFANY STONE left and sources for new stone are rare if any as mine operations policies have been tightened.

There are several supposed source sellers, whose material turned out to be a really 3rd rate brecciated conglomerate with some purple color mixed in. Tiffany Stone is composed of predominantly Opalized Fluorite (blues, purples and whites) often mixed with many other minerals such as quartz, chalcedony, dolomite, rhodonite(pink) manganese oxides (blacks), bertrandite (white, yellow or pink) that contains the mineral beryllium, which is what the miners were looking for originally to make missile nose cones since the material does not heat up at high speeds, beryl, solid white or translucent-yellowish opal and many other surprises. The rarity of Opal Fluorite is caused by the ore crushing extraction process for beryllium which involves crushing large quantities of material which yield only 1 to 2 percent of Beryllium Ore. They are made even more rare (and consequently expensive) because so few Opal Fluorites ever survived this extraction process.

People use all sorts of different names for it, two of the most common being Opal Fluorite, Tiffany Stone, Bertrandite and Beryllium ore. Just pay for all items.

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