40 Genuine Faceted Pumpkin FLUORITE Beads 12x8-13x10mm Start Price USD 14.99 Current Price USD 14.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 19, 2008 End Time Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Location FREE SHIPPING on $150 Purchase* See more about '40 Genuine Faceted Pumpkin FLUORITE Beads 12x8-13x10mm' Description GM-FR00032: 40 Genuine Faceted Pumpkin FLUORITE Beads 12x8-13x10mm Shipping & Handling | Policies Description Fluorite is a mineral with a veritable bouquet of brilliant colors. Fluorite is well known and prized for its glassy luster and rich variety of colors. The range of common colors for fluorite starting from the hallmark color purple, then blue, green, yellow, colorless, brown, pink, black and reddish orange is amazing and is only rivaled in color range by quartz. Intermediate pastels between the previously mentioned colors are also possible. It is easy to see why fluorite earns the reputation as "The Most Colorful Mineral in the World". The many colors of fluorite are truly wonderful. The rich purple color is by far fluorite's most famous and popular color. It easily competes with the beautiful purple of amethyst. Often specimens of fluorite and amethyst with similar shades of purple are used in mineral identification classes to illustrate the folly of using color as the sole means to identify minerals. The blue, green and yellow varieties of fluorite are also deeply colored, popular and attractive. The colorless variety is not as well received as the colored varieties, but their rarity still makes them sought after by collectors. A brown variety found in Ohio and elsewhere has a distinctive iridescence that improves an otherwise poor color for fluorite. The rarer colors of pink, reddish orange (rose) and even black are usually very attractive and in demand. Most specimens of fluorite have a single color, but a significant percentage of fluorites have multiple colors and the colors are arranged in bands or zones that correspond to the shapes of fluorite's crystals. In other words, the typical habit of fluorite is a cube and the color zones are often in cubic arrangement. The effect is similar to phantomed crystals that appear to have crystals within crystals that are of differing colors. A fluorite crystal could have a clear outer zone allowing a cube of purple fluorite to be seen inside. Sometimes the less common habits such as a colored octahedron are seen inside of a colorless cube. One crystal of fluorite could potentially have four or five different color zones or bands. SPECS: Gemstone: Fluorite Clarity: Semi-Transparent - Transparent Cutting: Other Treatment: None Bead Size: 12x8-13x10 mm.* Quantity / Length: 40 beads (They were taken from same larger strand so they look very similar) * *Approximately Depending on your monitor resolution the pictures may appear larger or smaller on your screen than actual size, please see the picture taken with the ruler for size reference. 1 mm. = 0.03937 inches Shipping & Handling Worldwide Standard Shipping from the USA: $3.99 on the first item and $0.99 on each additional item. FREE on total purchase of $150 or more purchased within 5 days and paid through our secure checkout at the same time. Notes: To take advantage of shipping discount, please wait until your last auction has ended and complete the checkout by clicking the checkout button below. If you are the winner, click the button above to check out right now! Insurance is optional but highly recommended. We are not responsible for lost or damage on the items shipped without insurance. We ONLY ship to France and Italy by Express Mail (3-5 days) for $24.99 on the first item and $0.99 on each additional item. Your item will be carefully packed and shipped in a protective bubble mailer with delivery confirmation (US only). Policies Satisfaction Guarantee: If you are not satisfied with the products you purchased, please contact us within 7 days for instructions on how to return the item for a refund. Shipping & handling charges are not refundable and customers are responsible for return shipping costs. Place a Bid!