JFD90AO1: One of the myths of Berbes is that there are also light blue fluorites like those from La Viesca and this piece is one of the very few proofs of this. The characteristic leafy Baryte clearly proves its origin, as well as a small violet rim of 'Berbes color' on the edges of the crystals and small doubly terminated quartzes on the rear of the piece.
I got the piece from Martín Oliete at the Bilbao Fosminer Show in 1995, and he could only tell me that he had it for 'a long time' and that he did not know in which part of Berbes it had been found. Legend says that these blue fluorites came out in the Valdelmar area, but for this piece we are not able to be sure.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8 × 3.4 cm = 3.39” × 3.15” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”