Fluorite

Fluorite is one of the most popular collector minerals in the world — and the single most important Chinese export species. Its perfect octahedral cleavage, sharp cubic crystals, and saturated color zoning have made Chinese fluorite the global benchmark for the last two decades.

Key Facts

• Mohs hardness 4 — softer than quartz, scratches with a steel knife.
• Glows under longwave UV; "fluorescence" was named after this mineral.
• Perfect octahedral cleavage means it breaks cleanly along four planes.
• Color is rarely intrinsic — most comes from rare-earth substitutions and radiation damage.
• China supplies roughly 65% of global fine collector specimens.

Notable Varieties

• Blue John (banded purple/yellow)
• Antozonite (radioactive black)
• Chlorophane (thermoluminescent)
• Yttrofluorite (Y-bearing)

The Chinese Angle

The Yaogangxian Mine in Hunan and the Xianghualing district produce the world's most architecturally perfect fluorite crystals — sharp 5-10 cm cubes with deep blue-green color zoning, often perched on milky quartz or wolframite. Hunan green fluorite is the international reference for top-tier collector grade.

Available Products of Fluorite

269 available specimens — showing 12 random

Purple Fluorite Cluster – QR Pattern – Guizhou, China

Purple Fluorite Cubic Crystal – Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China

Green Fluorite Cube on Matrix – Transparent – Zhejiang, China

Purple Phantom Fluorite with Cassiterite – Yaogangxian

Deep Purple Twinned Fluorite Cubes – Gold Flecks – Old Mine

Carved Fluorite Skull with Natural Geode Cavity

Purple Fluorite Staircase Cluster, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan

Purple Phantom Fluorite with Quartz – Twinned – Yaogangxian

Yellow Fluorite Twin Crystal, Beijing, China

Multicolor Blue and Green Fluorite, Fujian

Octahedral Fluorite with Dissolution Patterns, Fujian

Purple Phantom Fluorite Cluster with Pyrite, Yaogangxian