Crystal Prospect

fluorescent CRYOLITE with SIDERITE - Ivigtut, Greenland, Denmark

White Cryolite with lustrous brown Siderite rhombs and golden Chalcopyrite. The Cryolite is fluorescent in delicate pink color SW.

the world's only Cryolite mine, and Cryolite type locality

from the now closed and flooded Ivigtut Mine (Ivigtut Cryolite deposit), Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth, Arsuk, Sermersooq (Kitaa Province; West Greenland), Greenland, Denmark

Measures approximately 2.75 x 2 x 2 inch, 7.54 oz / 76 x 51 x 51 mm, 260g  

Price: 300.00 USD

Item # A0331014

To show the fluorescent response the specimen was illuminated using 6 watt 254nm (Short Wave) / 366nm (Long Wave) UVGL-58 lamp (you need a proper UV light source to observe the fluorescence, more powerful lamp = brighter response).