Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

21MMX14: Aggregate of Fluorite crystals of complex crystallography where the cubic and tetrahexahedron shapes dominate, with some completely smooth crystal faces, not cleavages, with a deep and uniform color tone, but with more intense coloration on some of the cube faces.
From a classic deposit for Asturian fluorite, Corta San Lino, which closed in 1986.
The sample, a Spanish classic, it was from Dr. Anton Forster, a mining engineer and collaborator of Dr. Maucher at Munich University. Dr. Forster was the Geologist in Chief at La Collada Mine.
San Lino Quarry, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, Cerracín, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6.0 × 4.5 cm = 2.99” × 2.36” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.0 × 2.0 cm = 0.79” × 0.79”

Former collection of Anton Forster





 

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