Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana Amber Fluorite has long been used

Fluorite has long been used as a gemstone and is increasingly popular in the market

it is largely mined as an industrial ore across the globe

The unique dark sugar quartz matrix evokes interstellar scenes of distant star clusters and nebulae offsetting the brilliant shine of the calcite crystals it contains

where some truly impressive specimens like this very rarely emerge from the mines

where early very productive copper mines supplied much of the ancient world with the material

Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana Amber Fluorite has long been usedDuring the Eocene, 40 50 million years ago, vast shoals of freshwater fish inhabited a large shallow inland sea across the American West. The herring like fish of the genus Knightia were far and away the most abundant freshwater fish during this era, and because of this they are one of the most frequently found vertebrate fossils on earth. Originating from the famed Green River Formation in Wyoming, fossils of Knightia eocaena and their close