APPLICATIONS: | As a flux in iron smelting, a rare gemstone, a source of fluorine, as special optical lenses and a popular mineral specimen. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Calcite, quartz, willemite, barite, witherite, apatite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite and other sulfides. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: | Pisces and Capricorn. |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | CaF2, Calcium Fluoride. |
CLASS: | Halides. |
CLEAVAGE: | Perfect in 4 directions forming octahedrons. |
COLOR: | Variable and many times can be an intense purple, blue, green or yellow; also colorless, reddish orange, pink, white and brown. A single crystal can be multi-colored. |
CRYSTAL HABITS: | Typical cube and to a lesser extent, the octahedron as well as combinations of these two and other rarer isometric habits. Always with equant crystals; less common are crusts and botryoidal forms. Twinning also produces penetration twins that look like two cubes grown together. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Isometric; 4/m bar 3 2/m. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Crystal habit, color zoning, hardness (harder than calcite, but softer than quartz or apatite), fluorescence and especially the octahedral cleavage. |
FRACTURE: | Irregular and brittle. |
GENERAL INFORMATION: | Often fluorescent blue or more rarely green, white, red or violet and may be thermoluminescent, phosphorescent and triboluminescent. |
GEOGRAPHY: | England, Spain, China, Brazil, Morocco, Canada, Mexico, Germany and USA. |
HARDNESS: | 4. |
LUSTER: | Vitreous. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Fluorite discourages chaotic, disruptive and disorganized growth. It transmits energy which can be used to stabilize and to produce order within mental, physical, emotional and spiritual systems. It is known as a stone of disernment and aptitude. It represents the height of mental achievment, facilitating a limitless range of avenues for exploration. It increases the ability to concentrate, balancing the positive and negative relationships of the mind. It helps to see reality and truths behind illusions. It is an excellent crytsal to in helping one to understand the balance of intrinsic relationships. The fluorite energycan inspire universal energies to activate the nourishing energy bodies, assisting one in the attainment of the ultimate state of physical perfection. It aids in recognizing the purity of the universe and to understand that each portion of the universe maintains an inherent perfection in order to allow the unfolding of the perfect universe. It also facilitates ideal health, intellect and emotional well being. It provides for purification, cleansing and elimination of that which is in disorder. |
PHYSICAL: | It has been used in the treatment of colds, flu, staph infectious diseases, strep infections, canker sores, herpes, ulcers, tumors, cell formation, bone structure and RNA/DNA damage. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 3.1. |
STREAK: | White. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Transparent to translucent. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 7. |
