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Here’s a tiffany stone sphere that is a rare, very large (6.5″), very heavy (12.6 lbs), and jaw dropping gorgeous . Tiffany stone is a beryllium ore although it only contains a very small percentage of beryllium. They mine the stone in Utah, USA for the beryllium but some of the stone makes it to the rock and gem market (in my opinion not nearly enough).
Other names for Tiffany Stone are opalized fluorite and bertrandite. The Stone is primarily composed of fluorite and it may include small amounts of quartz, chalcedony, and other minerals such as opal, calcite, dolomite, and bertrandite.
Dale made the sphere and his workmanship is outstanding.
The sphere is very colorful in pastels of pink, peach, purple, yellowish and others. Black and white along with brecciations with chalcedony really define the patterns of this material. There are vugs and most with sparkly quartz crystals. The photos were taken in bright sunlight and so the colors look a little lighter than actual.
The sphere is also fluorescent. The chalcedony (most of the brecciations) glows a beautiful and vivid green under short wave UV. The ball also fluoresce under long wave UV (but not as intense) in blues, purples, some pink and other colors. Check the photos below. I apologize for the poor quality of these photos but I think they give an indication of what the ball looks like under the UV light.
The sphere weighs about 12.6 lbs and it has about 6.5″ diameter (16.5 cm).
Origin: Tiffany stone is mined in one location and that is Spor Mountain in Western Utah, USA. See more photos of this sphere below.
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Price: $4350.00.
The photos below are of the sphere under an ultraviolet light. The sphere glows green under short wave UV and bluish and purple under long wave.
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