Gemologist vs Geologist: Examining Fluorite
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2018
- This week's unboxing, Natalie brings on long time friend, Elizabeth (the geologist) on for the third episode of Gemologist vs Geologist. The two examine and discuss different types of #Fluorite, its many features and where to find it!
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The blue fluorite on the quartz crystals is so gorgeous 😭😍
Fluorite is one of the gems that got me into gems. I have a tumbled, generator and pendant. My all time favorite is the large cubic specimens that are deep purple and blue.
My fluorite generator is green with purple bands and whats weird is that with some bands if you turn the gem you can't see the band anymore.
I tumbled flourite and ended up with pebbles.. It's a lot softer than I thought.. Since then I've learned.
She finally got something she can enjoy
As a geologist I enjoy Elizabeth's detailed discussions and great banter between you both but my favorites are when Elizabeth gives Natalie the death laser eye look!!! 🤣
Natalie and Elizabeth, this channel is gradually becoming one of my favourites! You ladies are just... wowonderful!
7:39 Pseudocubic means the crystal unit cell parameters are not a = b = c and/or all angles not perfectly 90 degrees but that the crystal itself has a cubic or nearly cubic habit. The blue fluorite crystal here would be a cube modified by octahedron and dodecahedron and is not pseudocubic.
Adding on, occasionally fluorite sometimes forms botryoidal masses.
Happy one year anniversary!!!
Happy Anniversary Natalie and JTV, I love this channel. I actually have a few pieces of fluorite in my collection both as specimens and as lapidary material. My favorite pieces are one that is colorless on the back and goes into the deep purple but not quite as dark as the one in this video, and another piece that was surrounded by host material and looks like two sections of vibrant yellow with purple edges growing towards one another. Along with several octahedrons for faceting and rainbow fluorite slabs for cabbing it is definitely one of my favorite gems from both a geological and gemological perspective. Keep up the good work JTV and Natalie! Also thank you to Elizabeth for your contributions, I love hearing the geological details you share.
I absolutely love how informative this episode was! This video was so in-depth and beneficial! Thank you so much for doing what you do, guys!
I'm so happy you got your M&Ms Natalie!! :D
I love fluorite. Gorgeous, yet cheap.
my fav. is the blue with the frosted points
I this by far, your vest episode. I love everything about this one. The gems are brilliant and the specimens are fascinating. And most importantly, the zoom-in camera panning at the end is done great in this one. It's slow enough for your audience's eyes to follow, it's zoomed enough to see the amazing details in the specimen, and it doesn't do the quick flashing like some other videos you did. great job!
You ladies are amazing.
I've only just found your channel this evening while trawling through youtube, looking for ideas on cutting some fluorite rough I have.
I've shared your channel with our Fossicking Australia Ladies Group.
Thanks for doing this episode on one of my favorite gemstones :).
Love watching your videos! Great work... Well done!
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Happy anniversary!!! Omg love this channel!! I'm a big rock nerd lol. So much to love because there are so many kinds, shapes and colors.💜✌
I am in love with Fluorite. My favorite is the blue shades, which before I thought only came out of China. However, my very recent trip to the Tucson gem and mineral show has revealed my new favorites are coming out of New Mexico.
Happy birthday, #JTV!
That dark blue sppeciman on your Left!! Awesome 2nd time seeing them like that. Or the Durango Purple in my collection. I love using fluorite to facet and keep them Big!
I feel like this channel needs more subs for how good they are
My favorite fluorite is a point I picked up for my niece when she graduated high school... it was pale green on the bottom then clear.. then the most beautiful teal color and the tip was a pale purple. So pretty 🥰
Happy anniversary JTV!!
Marion, Western Kentucky. Went to the Eureka mine a few years back and it has some amazingly dark almost black fluorite. If you hold it up to a light you can see extremely saturated purples and pinks! There’s a pit with some amazing Ruby Sphalerite near it too!
The lapidary who cut that purple stone really brought the best out of it. You cannot see the banding at all from the top, though it is clearly present. That cutting is the work of a talented artist! (And shame on you, Natalie, for not bringing that up! 😉)
Congrats on your one year channelversary, and the 25th anniversary of JTV! You gals 'ROCK'!
I love really near a mine that bright green flourite comes from its so beautiful
I actually ordered some Fluorite a while ago, along with some other gems. Today my Aquamarine and Malachite arrived.
Niklas Universe do you order single pieces or strands? I would love for you to share your source.😊
Lisa Samogala JTV (and jtv.com) sells loose gemstones, some specimens, as well as lots of jewelry. You can often find gemstone strands during their Jewel School segments.
Should have mentioned that the last stone from New Mexico is from the Blanchard Mine, world famous for its blue fluorite and combinations of quartz, fluorite, galena, barite, linarite and a host of other minerals.
I just acquired some of the Pseudo cubic dodechahedrons from that mine,and am over the moon about them.I have an obsession with Fluorite,i want a piece of every different formation
Bands make her dance 😭😂😭😂 I love the energy these 2 have together
As a new subscriber, I obviously missed this until today (Mar 1st 2020). I found the entire presentation very informative and much fun. However, I have a sign on shop's bulletin board that reads, "Why would anyone in their right mind cut Florite?" It is just too darn soft and will wear one out getting the meets right. LOL
Thanks for another nice video. Cheers!!!
Black fluorite! Finally just got my first piece so hard to find!
Love them the gems! I have light green oval fluorite gemstones.
Blue John is my favourite as I've been down that mine
Happy anniversary love your channel
You're right. Fluorite and Sugar both belong in the Isometric Crystal System which one of the shapes, "Cubic" is a part of.
I have blue, green and purple fluorite specimens i have collected in New Mexico. It is everywhere there!
if your ever in Vancouver the M and M s are on me!! the darker Flourite is especially pretty.
I love this channel!!
This was cool, thank you.
I did look up some different kinds of flourite, and since I'm always partial to purple, I guess that means one of my favourite kinds of flourite comes from the Berbes Mine in Spain. (There. I tried to get you an exotic trip out of this. ¡Disfrutenlo!)
I'm not a gem enthusiast... but I come here for the bad puns 👌
I love this jewelry🥰
A great way to talk about 💎 Gemstones 💎
I found cut and polished my fluorite , they're purple green and blue banded
Have you had ocean jasper as a topic? I would love it if you featured the jasper. Thank you.
Can you find Neon in Fluorite? And what is the is the most common element to find Neon with?.. Sorry, still didn't get that many questions silde for school.
My absolute favourite gemstone story is the way Alexandrite was discovered: Russian miners were digging for emeralds. Toward the end of the day, they happened upon some green stones which were an 'off-colour' green. They placed them in a corner of the cave, and the next morning they looked rufescent. When they brought them out of the cave they looked like sapphires. In artificial light they looked like amethyst and/or London topaz, depending on the light source.
They named this newfound stone Alexandrite, in honour of Russia's last Czar (or Tsar, if you prefer). I own a natural one but I don't wear it that often because it is hard to match my wardrobe, given the way it changes colours so often. Mine is ovular, and surrounded by round white diamonds. I had it designed specially by my jeweller.
Just sharing, Alaskana
I had no idea it came in so many colors. Usually you just see green and purple. I have a chunk that is green. I think it is flourite. It came in a bag with a bunch of other rocks.
I'd be happy if I found MandMs in a box too.
Love this channel!!!!!
Thanks, Connie!!
The checkerboard table is also to help mitigate the appearance of scratches as a flaw, since it won't be interrupting the singular flat plane and blemishing the viewing window into the gemstone. I'd probably set that as the feature stone in a necklace, just to keep it out of harm's way, since rings tend to be more subject to wear and damage to the stones. Being such a soft stone, you end up with a much higher risk of damage even if you set it in a recessed setting on a ring. Plus, if you recess it too much, you end up losing out on the ability for light to enter around the pavilion of the stone, which is just a shame. All in all, fluorite isn't particularly well suited to jewelry and there are other, more durable stones out there that provide similar or better qualities in the same family of colors once you go to facet or otherwise process them for jewelry. Once you remove the natural texture from the outside of the specimen, I find that they feel a lot less special and unique. I'd just go for a nice topaz instead if I wanted a pinky-brown gemstone for jewelry settings. They're also cheaper than finding such a clean fluorite specimen and processing that without it fracturing during the faceting.
love the gems and rough stones ^^
better if guys use a microscopic lens to view the gemstones.... Super education to learn from you guys.. Great job.
God she certainly gets excited about a bag of sweets but fair enough 😂
My question for you I am from Jamaica fossilized turtle I'm wondering if I should take outside off early is it as it is exposed opal
Happy Birthday, JTV!
You guys are awesome
they make the big telescope lenses out of flourite by recrystalizing the flourite in a hydrothermal method 10:31
The best examples would have to be from Bergmännisch Glück Mine, Saxony, Germany!
In the very near future I'm climbing a mountain out here in NM (Cookes Peak) that is known for its Flourite. I HOPE I see some, but pretty sure it needs to be mined. Maybe I'll see some veins lol
PS I laughed when them eye beams.... lol
Where can you find gemologist within phil.
M&Ms is the best chocolate, fight me.
Master Of The Cringe boi u clearly never tried charbonnel et Walker
Both vocations are valuable.
It would be cool if you did an episode on aquaprase
Opals are the best! I have a 110lb Boulder opal from No. California from a creek bed
What creek are you pulling opal from?
What about Blue John Fluorite? I want to know more about this gem.
Blue fluorite is ma favourite
I have soo many fluorites
I have a tiny little fluorite crystal that almost looks like it was cut into a gem and it’s covered in bands of color
Yesss
Dizziness Track
How come they rarely make videos anymore; we dont see her in the 2022 (recent) videos.
Shes Very strange; so its entertaining to see that .......
The geologist ran laps around her xD
pls Gemologist vs Mineralogist
Hi Natalie
When she pulled out the color change Fluorite, I yelled out “Color Change” a second before it was revealed to be color change 😂
Fluorite is my favorite
Slabs spheres and towers of fluorite love them all so much😊
Will you ever feature phosphophilote and cininbar?
You mean cinnabar. Cinnabar is gorgeous but it is not safe to touch or wear. It's contain mercury which is poisonous.
I have so much green fluorite someone please help me
It is SO frustrating when the host says, "look at..." but the camera doesn't get close enough to see much of anything but a pretty little spot.
Epic rocks I must have rocks in my head
I really want to be a geologist when I get older 😁
Anyone is a geology student who understands what she is saying like me
wow! pizza is impressed. oh, and the rocks are cool too.
Elizabeth, where do you work as a geologist? Go to cave in rock often. Worked at Elmwood as a project geologist.
I went to The University of Tennessee for my degree in Geology and Environmental Studies. I have been to Wyoming and South Dakota for field studies and I have a published research paper on a meteorite from Saudi Arabia that was newly discovered when I was in college.
I went to MTSU. But not from TN originally. Lets go rockhounding!
So basically all are florite ??
Hey guys music too loud very distracting lol...
Can somewone tell me what a Marjan Stone is is it natural do they realy glow underwater ARE THEY EVEN REAL?
Alexander Zangal heck idk
The one at 6:53 is so beautiful 🤩
They make the fluorite lenses in a lab. They do not find them naturally.
i wanna becomes a geologist! -cathy-
Bro I have a rainbow jadeite lol
Flourite 😍😍
My favorite fluorite is from Steven Universe👩👩👧👧
liked Because Laser beams are so unisex
You can totally tell the geologist is over the gemologist lmfao. She's like sit your ass down and wait till I'm done. A geologist is more Important then a gemologist.
Draining mobile data for this.
That geologist is hot.
Flourite may be rainbow, but JTV sure is one note. I just found the channel and enjoy the content, but are you guys that hard pressed to find anyone non-white for your team?