jolie_amethyst
So I came across these drilled ~ 1" fluorite spheres today, and a few of them are puzzling me. I'm used to fluorite being transparent--some of these have white banding that is completely opaque. Others have even the purple bands with little to no transparency. Combine the two and you have what looks almost like chevron amethyst. I need to find my black light to check them yet, but I figured I'd check in here in the meantime to see if opacity is at all normal for fluorite, or if I'm looking at something different here.
Thoughts? They're apparently from new old wholesale stock, with "made in China" labels on them. And as there's plenty more where they came from, if the purple & white opaques are likely to be amethyst, I'll go back for a few more of those.
Thoughts? They're apparently from new old wholesale stock, with "made in China" labels on them. And as there's plenty more where they came from, if the purple & white opaques are likely to be amethyst, I'll go back for a few more of those.