Fluorite octahedron

Mineral

Fluorite · calcium fluoride

Fluorite is calcium fluoride. Crystals are often cubes or octahedra. Color bands in purple, green, blue, and yellow are common. Soft (Mohs 4), a display mineral more than a pocket stone. People collect it for the geometry. Cards below cite public fluorite and fluorspar pages. Naming a purple cube vs purple quartz points is an identification-kit job; keeping the named cube is a display-kit job: ID kit vs display stand.

Cited public sources