Crystal Prospect

fluorescent IDRIALITE CURTISITE - classic locale - Skaggs Springs, California, USA

Bright bluish and greenish fluorescing Idrialite "Curtisite" in matrix, the SW and LW responses are both as strong.

this rare hydrocarbon mineral is reported from about 17 localities worldwide

from Skaggs Springs Mine, Skaggs Springs, Warm Springs Dam, Coast Range, Sonoma County, California, USA

Measures approximately 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 inch, 4.90 oz / 51 x 38 x 38 mm, 139g

Price: 80.00 USD

Item # A0231214

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).