Idrialite (Curtisite)

At the mineral show in Brussels this weekend I bought a beautiful little piece of idrialite.

This color is really not quite right. Your eye sees a little more green.
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Sort of towards the fluorescent color of uranium. Or tourquoise. It came out of East Slovakia in 1983.

The fluorescence is really quite bright. Almost unreal.



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These are a few links to some other pictures of my fluorescent stones:
http://tinyurl.com/nojk2
http://tinyurl.com/ncgqe
http://paulgarland.blogspot.com/2006/03/more-glow-rocks.html -
http://paulgarland.blogspot.com/2006/03/andy-warhol-on-lsd-playing-with-glow.html -
http://paulgarland.blogspot.com/2006/01/fluorescent-minerals.html http://paulgarland.blogspot.com/2006/04/fluorite-weardale-england.html
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This is a not a new addition to my collection, but it sure is nice.
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Clik on it to make it enlarge and you will see why I like fluorescent rocks so much. I am not articulate enough to properly describe this beauty.
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It is a picture of some hardystonite (the blue or purple) with calcite (orange), the black is franklinite, and the green is a very bright, highly fluorescent ore of zinc called willemite.
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It has to be one of the prettiest combinations of colors in my collection of fluorescent rocks. But I have many others that come real close! http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/101/2016/1600/Franklin%20Mine%20composite.jpg


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