Chinese
Name:第凡尼石 / 蒂芙尼石
English Name:Tiffany Stone
Other Names:Opalized Fluorite,
Purple Opal, Ice Cream Opal
Chemical Composition:Fluorite,
Opal, Chaldedony, Bertrandite, Oxidized Manganese and other
minerals
Crystal System:Amorphous
Hardness:5.5 - 8.0
SG:3.18
Related Chakra:Third-eye, Crown
Locality:Brush Wellman Mine,
West Utah, USA
Colour:Blue, Brown, Mauve, Grey,
Tan, Purple, Reddish-brown and Black
Remarks:The name Tiffany Stone
presumably comes from the jewelry company Louis Comfort Tiffany
(LCT, Tiffany's Second Generation),because the collector think
the patterns from the stone resembling the design of LCT's
art glass.
This mineral contains Fluorite, Opal, Chaldedony, Bertrandite,
Oxidized Manganese and other minerals.
Tiffany Stone is the name given to a combination stone that
includes Bertrandite(beryllium silicate), Opal, Purple Fluorite
and Chalcedony. It is also known as Opalized Fluorite, Purple
Opal and Ice Cream Opal. Tiffany Stone is from Utah in the
United States of America and is very rare.
Opalized fluorite is a mineraloid which is a combination of
amorphous hydrated, fluorine-rich mineralized fluids and silica-rich
sediments. Amorphous materials where naturally created by
the rapidly cooling molten material. |