[Rockhounds] Antozonite

[Douglas Bank]

I don’t know how radioactive it would be, but I doubt it is particularly radioactive because the radioactive elements are not a part of the mineral structure. The more interesting part is that this stuff is also known as ‘fetid fluorite’ and supposedly smells nasty due to native fluorine in the matrix. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10992

Doug

> On May 29, 2023, at 7:38 PM, hammerron <hammerron at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> I came across a piece of antozonite.  The label described it as a radioactive variety of fluorite. Would anyone have any information regarding how radioactive it might be?
> Ron
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Rockhounds mailing list
> Subscription Services:  http://rockhounds.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds_rockhounds.drizzle.com
> List Usage Policy: http://Tomaszewski.net/Kreigh/Rockhounds/Rockhounds.shtml