FE86H0: Matrix size is perfect, with a Fluorite crystal very well positioned on it. The crystal shows faces of the cube and octahedron, a less frequent combination than single octahedron. Crystal has a pleasant green light color.
Felix Mine, Azusa, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm = 2.0” × 1.5” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

FE14S5: Isolated crystal of Fluorite, neatly cubic and beveled, unusual for Azusa, where the most typical form is the octahedron or cuboctahedron. The crystal, between translucent and transparent, is clear green and it is on a Quartz matrix.
Felix Mine, Azusa, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California  USA (±1999)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.0” × 1.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FA96G6: An elegant piece from a very unusual locality. On a bed of crystals covering the matrix there are some very sharp cubes. Their color, combining white and gray, adds sobriety to the piece.
Boulder Hill Mine, Silver Glance District, Douglas County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6 × 5 cm = 3.8” × 2.4” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

FD57G0: On a globular formation of little cubic crystals of Fluorite an Analcime crystal enhances, absolutely transparent, bright and sharp. A little jewel.
Sharon claims, Silver Peak District, Esmeralda County, Nevada  USA (±2002)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 1.9 × 1 cm = 1.4” × 0.7” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

FF62G6: The Fluorite octahedrons of this piece are distributed "in crescendo" and just finishing in two main interpenetrated crystals. The color is curious, with a mélange of purple and green and white zones giving them a "snowy" aspect.
Monarch Mine, Cherry, Cherry Creek District, Black Hills, Yavapai County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FF13H0: Both the matrix of little Quartz crystals and the Fluorite octahedron have a glazed surface. The Fluorite crystal is easy to distinguish by its light green color and the good position on the matrix, but another crystal, nearly uncolored, is hidden there too. As usually happens with a lot of samples from Jan Buma’s collection, the locality is very unusual.
Oregon Mine, Oatman District, Mohave County, Arizona  USA (±2002)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.1” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FV16S5: Compact aggregate of clear green crystals of Fluorite. They are octahedral, with polycrystalline growths on their faces, and with a second generation of deep violet small cubic crystals partially coated by yellow laminar crystals of Wulfenite, a very unusual association.
Toughnut Mine, Tombstone, Tombstone District, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.0” × 2.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”

FR64J7: Cubic yellow crystals, very transparent and bright. They are on a matrix with white Celestine veins and with clear crystals of Gypsum.
Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio  USA (±1998)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 8.3 × 8.2 cm = 4.2” × 3.3” × 3.2”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

FJ13T3: Aggregate of violet cubic crystals of Fluorite, transparent and with very well marked color zoning, parallel to the edges, and with acute scalenohedral crystals of Calcite.
Stoneco Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Paulding County, Ohio  USA

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1 cm = 0.9” × 0.4”

FR16H0: A simultaneous growth of Fluorite and Galena cubes. Galena seems to be “eaten” by Fluorite. The base is a matrix with small Quartz crystals.
Blanchard Mine (Portales-Blanchard Mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA (±2003)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.8 × 5.7 cm = 2.5” × 2.3” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

FP66G0: Blue color is superb and also the sharpness and definitions of cubic crystals. A classic specimen from a classic locality.
Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA (±2001)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 6.5 × 3 cm = 4.5” × 2.6” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FX6S5: Aggregate of cubic crystals of Fluorite of intense sky blue color, with perimorphic growths of white microcrystalline Quartz. The sample is with a label of the collection of H.P. Obboda that we'll send to the buyer together with the Buma label.
Galena King Mine, Tijeras Canyon District, Bernalillo County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 1.8 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FE58I0: The locality is very uncommon. On the specimen the small cubic crystals of Fluorite are with very small, but also very bright, crystals of Chalcopyrite.
Pea Ridge Mine, Sullivan, Washington County, Missouri  USA (±2001)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 2.3” × 1.8” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

FH27K9: Excellent and complex crystal. Very rich in faces, of which the scalenohedron clearly dominates. Very intense color, and it rests on a base of cubic deep purple Fluorite crystals.
Denton Mine, Rosiclare level, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.5 × 4.2 cm = 3.1” × 1.8” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.6” × 1.5”

FM6F7: This group of crystals has a structure and color that are really attractive, even more so when light enters the center. They are also well placed on the Calcite.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA (±1993)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.6 × 3 cm = 1.9” × 1.8” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

FC66F7: A group of Calcite scalenohedra that cover a Fluorite, which is still visible given its deep blue-violet color. The honey color makes one want to eat them. They are real candy.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 11 × 7.5 × 7 cm = 4.3” × 3.0” × 2.8”

FB35I7: An uncommon locality. Crystals are complex, very rich in faces and almost spherical. They are yellow and very shiny and contrast on a matrix of white Calcite.
Erwin, Unicoi County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5 × 2.3 cm = 2.1” × 2.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

FT96H0: The piece shows a curious structure of crystals that form a comb, with a superficial slight color giving it a special sensation of relief. As usually happens with a lot of samples from Jan Buma’s collection, the locality is very unusual.
Danville, Garrard County, Kentucky  USA

Specimen size: 8 × 6.8 × 5.9 cm = 3.1” × 2.7” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FT16F7: Crystals of fluorite surround it right to the top. Maybe they were trying to purify themselves as they have a phantom within them. But that would not have been easy as the road was full of spines.... of Quartz, of course. Such thoughts aside, the Fluorite has an excellent color and is from a classic locality, which is famous for its exceptional Rhodochrosite.
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (±2001)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 2.1” × 1.6” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

FK86H0: The little crystal of Fluorite is the item on the piece. A typical sample from Pikes Peak, with Smoky Quartz and Microcline (amazonite) embellished by this little cube of colorless Fluorite with little purple spots.
Take 5 Claim, Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado  USA (±2003)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

FE36G0: The quality is superior to most Fluorites from this locality. A very simple but well-defined crystal stands up in an aerial way on a pegmatitic matrix, formed by a group of little crystals of smoky Quartz and Feldspar.
Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.8” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.0” × 1.0”

FB26M2: From an uncommon American locality and with larger than usual crystal size. A group of a very sharp pale green octahedral Fluorite crystals. On matrix.
Mount Antero area, Condado Chaffee, Colorado  USA (±1993)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.0” × 0.7”

FJ6H0: The contrast between the Quartz and the purple Fluorite is especially beautiful. The small bright crystals of Quartz embrace Fluorite octahedrons of rounded edges and parallel growths. The locality is very unusual.
Climax Mine, (corta cielo abierto Climax), Climax, Climax District, Lake County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.6” × 1.2” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FL50H8: Excellent and not so common crystallization with stepped formation produced by the repetition of the forms of the cube all along of the edges and also on the faces of the octahedron. There is also a “phantom” growth with a more opaque central zone. The crystals are on a matrix of Rhodochrosite, Quartz and small crystals of Chalcopyrite.
The sample is with the label of the collection of Fluorites of Herb Obodda.
Sunnyside Mine group (American Tunnel Mine), Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka District, San Juan County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.9 × 5.1 cm = 2.6” × 1.9” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”

FA14H8: Crystals are octahedrons, and have stepped growths due to the presence of small faces of the cube, both on the edges and the faces. The matrix, on which there are also small crystals of Quartz, is formed for a group of hexagonal crystals of Pyrrhotite, well defined, neat, bright and free of alteration.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1996)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.9 × 4.5 cm = 2.6” × 1.9” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”

FD29H0: A bright piece, the Galena, Arsenopyrite, and the Fluorite as well, the Fluorite is gemmy and slightly green colored. I like its perfection, I like its different minerals and I like its composition.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1980)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.5 × 4.1 cm = 3.0” × 2.2” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.9 cm = 1.4” × 1.1”

MB96S1: Group of transparent octahedral crystals of Fluorite with a very uniform violet color. They have the rough surfaces typical of samples from Naica. They are on matrix with Calcite, Quartz and Pyrite.
Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.5” × 1.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

FQ26M2: Cubic colorless Fluorite crystals showing faces paved by re-growths of smaller cubes accompanied by well defined Sphalerite crystals and small Chalcopyrite crystals on a rich Quartz crystal matrix.
This sample has been noted and photographed in the Mineralogical Record magazine (January-February 2018, pg. 163)
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), level 13, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±2004)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.6 × 4.2 cm = 3.2” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.2” × 0.9”

FM56H0: An excellent Fluorite from the San Antonio mine, deep colored and with a different aspect than usual, with transparent cube faces and rounded surfaces on the edges. With the Fluorite are black crystals of Tetrahedrite and also small white crystals of Calcite.
San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua  Mexico (±2004)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.7 × 5.4 cm = 2.7” × 2.6” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

FE86F7: In this case I like the form of the Fluorite, it looks like a stepped tower, and also the crown of white Calcite near the top of it. I also like the fact that within it you can also see needlelike crystals of Jamesonite. A very good specimen for the locality.
Mina San Martín, Sombrerete, Zatatecas  Mexico (±2004)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.3 × 4.4 cm = 2.1” × 1.7” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

FA96F5: A group of cubic crystals with regions that are green to colorless and on which white Baryte has grown. The gentle color gives it a relaxing feel. Specimens from this locality are not that common.
Roger Quarry, Madoc, Ontario  Canada (±2002)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 10 × 5 cm = 4.5” × 3.9” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

FH9S5: Globular growths of translucent, clear lilac Fluorite that are partially coated by transparent tabular crystals of Baryte of uniform and vivid yellow color.
Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia  Canada

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

FL56F7: Cuboctahedral crystals with stepped scalenohedral growth and zones of green-violet. A candy.
Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia  Canada

Specimen size: 5 × 3.9 × 2.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.5” × 1.1”

FT26H5: A very rare combination of native Silver with Fluorite. Silver grew in arborescent clusters of small crystals having very sharp faces and edges. On them, small purple crystals of Fluorite crystallized.
El Bonanza Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories  Canada (±1989)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 1.3”

FR9M5: Group of cubic crystals, sharp, with deep honey-yellow color and mostly covered by aggregates of white laminar crystals of Baryte. Different than usual for the locality.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (±2001)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.5” × 2.3” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

FB13M2: Group of colorless cubic Fluorite crystals showing a pale violet color zoning. More than excellent transparency and luster. With a small twinned Chalcopyrite crystal, very bright, half of which is included in the Fluorite.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (±1993)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

FC16G6: Really Nature has its own caprices! I think this piece is a good example. Dolomite crystals form a "pompon" on the top of a Calcite scalenohedron. Furthermore there are some Fluorite crystals and one of them, as it must be, on the "pompon".
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (±1998)

Specimen size: 11 × 6.3 × 7 cm = 4.3” × 2.5” × 2.8”

FN27H5: A classic from the find of the year 2001 in the well known pocket of El Reguerín 2, in the La Collada district. Crystals are cubes beveled by rhombohedron faces. They are beautiful blue and very transparent. In some zones on the matrix some small crystals of Quartz with small cubes of Fluorite appear.
La Viesca Mine, Reguerín II pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (12/2001)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.2 × 4.6 cm = 3.7” × 2.8” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FN87F5: A Spanish classic. From the Veneros Norte Mine at La Collada, which is now closed, comes this large crystal (a floater) that is recrystallized on the rear and that has the typical bevelled edges of this mine. A deep violet color, but in fact even more interesting as one can feel the depth of it due to the bluer zone in its center.
Josefa-Veneros vein, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 8 × 6 cm = 3.3” × 3.1” × 2.4”

FR76G0: A rarity! Although Fluorite is known from Panasqueira, it rarely forms such well defined and deep colored crystals as in this specimen. The matrix is, furthermore, specially esthetic being rich in little crystals of Siderite.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro  Portugal (1998)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5.1 × 3.4 cm = 2.0” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

FR14F7: Twinned crystals of Fluorite. With an appearance that is typical for the mine, but with a rather special coloring, more pastel than is usual. A small group of crystals stand out near the top of the specimen.
Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm = 2.3” × 2.0” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

TE6R9: Group of transparent cubic crystals with deep green color and showing, very well marked, the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes.
Heights Quarry, Westgate, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4 × 2.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.6” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

FP37H8: An English locality classic. Crystals are well preserved. They have the typical interpenetration twin and are transparent, bright, and have deep green color. Some minor Galena is present.
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom (±1994)

Specimen size: 15 × 7.8 × 8.3 cm = 5.9” × 3.1” × 3.3”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FX96H8: A very classic English locality well known since XIX century. Crystals are transparent cubes with a lot of inclusions and they are partially covered by Siderite.
Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope District, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.6 × 3.4 cm = 3.8” × 2.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

MA16V9: Yellow transparent cubic crystals of Fluorite on matrix, with Sphalerite and Galena. The card of the Jan Buma collection (number 061012), that we'll send to the buyer, includes an inexact locality so, after consulting with some specialists, the correct details of the locality are reflected in our label.
West Pastures Mine, Stanhope, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 12 × 9.5 × 4.5 cm = 4.7” × 3.7” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

FA11T3: Aggregate of translucent lilac cubic crystals. The sample, as is usual for a lot of samples in Buma’s collection, is from a poorly known English mine in Durham County.
Leonard's Hush, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.6” × 1.9” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

FJ64H8: The locality is uncommon. Crystals are cubic, transparent and practically uncolored. They are well preserved, which is very unusual on old specimens.
Allenheads Mine, Allendale, Northumberland  England, United Kingdom (±1996)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.2 × 2.7 cm = 3.3” × 3.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”

FD58I7: A typical specimen from Egremont, with small Hematite crystals partially covered by clear, practically dipyramidal crystals of Quartz and Dolomite rhombohedra. We note, not so common, the presence of small very transparent and slightly blue cubic crystals of Fluorite.
Beckermet Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.8 × 2.2 cm = 3.3” × 2.7” × 0.9”

FJ61S5: Translucent cubic crystals of Fluorite. They are bright, with very well defined faces and edges, with cubic crystals of Pyrite and on a matrix of Galena. The sample is from a not so well known mine near Alston Moor.
Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines Orefield, former Cumberland, Cumbria  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.6 × 1.7 cm = 3.0” × 1.8” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”

FQ46G6: In a first view, as a Quartz, it looks rare. And it is rare, because it has the form of octahedral Fluorite, previously existing and substituted by the Quartz. More curious is to observe that the surface is cryptocrystalline Quartz (Chalcedony) but the core of the octahedron, where Fluorite primarily was, is hollow and consists of little geodes covered by Quartz crystals.
Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Liskeard, Cornwall  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.4 × 3.3 cm = 3.0” × 2.5” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FR10M0: From an old English locality, at once classic and uncommon. Group of transparent pale velvet cubic Fluorite crystals with geometrical color zoning, deepest on edges. The specimen is completed by laminar book shape Baryte crystals.
Coldstones Quarry, Greenhow, Yorkshire  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.2 × 3 cm = 3.3” × 2.4” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”

FR56H8: The locality is uncommon. Crystals are transparent and practically uncolored cubes. They are well preserved and in some zones they are partially covered by Calcite.
Tear Breeches Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 9.2 × 8 × 6.8 cm = 3.6” × 3.1” × 2.7”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

FP36T3: Aggregate of sharp cubic crystals of Fluorite, on matrix and partially coated by small crystals of Chalcopyrite, with yellow scalenohedral crystals of Calcite and complex crystals of Sphalerite. An English classic.
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire  England, United Kingdom

Specimen size: 13.7 × 11.4 × 7 cm = 5.4” × 4.5” × 2.8”

FE48J5: Group of translucent, greenish cubic crystals, of very well defined faces and edges, associated with tabular crystals of Baryte. We specially note the locality, not so common.
The specimen is from Jan Buma collection and it previously was in the Herb Obboda collection and we’ll send the two collection cards to the buyer of the sample.
L'Avellan Mine, level 65, Massif L'Esterel, Fréjus, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France

Specimen size: 7.1 × 7 × 3.3 cm = 2.8” × 2.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

FE63J7: Group of coloredless and transparent cubic crystals that have inclusions of globular groups of Chalcopyrite.
Fontsante Mine, Tanneron Massif, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur  France (±1999)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 5.2 × 2.6 cm = 4.5” × 2.0” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FA86S5: Very sharp cubic crystals of very well defined faces and edges, translucent, of uniform yellow color and with white inclusions. The crystals are very isolated, which is uncommon for the samples from this locality, and they are on a matrix of Siderite.
Peyrebrune Mine, Terne Grosse, Peyrebrune area, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie  France (06/2000)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.6 × 4.2 cm = 3.8” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

FY96F7: A very fine plate from a locality that rarely produces undamaged specimens. The base is white Quartz and on it there are various cubes of beautiful blue Fluorite with delicate phantoms, which have grown with equal gaps between them.
Le Burc Mine, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Occitanie  France (±2003)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.6” × 2.2” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FV68M2: Very esthetic specimen. Very transparent cubic crystals with a yellowish-bluish color, on a Quartz crystal matrix. Some of the Fluorite crystals show scrapes and small damages.
Le Burc Mine, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Occitanie  France (±2003)

Specimen size: 15.5 × 11 × 3.7 cm = 6.1” × 4.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FB26S5: Aggregate of cubic crystals of very well defined faces and edges, translucent, of uniform green color and on a base of white Quartz.
Maxonchamp, Remiremont, Épinal, Vosges, Grand Est  France

Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.7 × 2.4 cm = 3.7” × 2.6” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

FC61J7: Magnificent miniature. The octahedral crystal has an excellent luster, a good degree of transparency and its color is deeper than usual. Furthermore, it is esthetically implanted on a Quartz matrix.
Frunthorn, Valsertal, Graubünden  Switzerland (2000)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.9” × 0.8” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

FH63J5: Group of cubic crystals, very transparent, almost colorless, and free of damage. Fluorite is partially covered by small pink crystals of Dolomite. We especially note the locality, not so common.
The specimen is from Jan Buma collection and we’ll send the collection card to the buyer of the sample.
Corvara Mine, Val Sarentino, Bolzano  Italy

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.2” × 1.8” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

FT47F5: At the top of the specimen there is a very aerial pink Fluorite, which is part of a group of octahedral crystals that sit on the typical matrix for the locality: light pink Orthoclase along with smoky Quartz and Clinochlore. Very unusual and elegant = a typical Jan Buma specimen. It also has a label, numbered 353, from the Herbert P. Obodda collection, which is where he got it.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 141 in the volume 88, number 2, Mar/Apr 2013
Baveno, Lago Maggiore, Piemonte  Italy

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.8 × 2 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”

FD6M3: From a not well represented locality in collections, classic ones included. Very aerial group of Fluorite crystals formed by cube and dodecahedron faces, practically uncolored and partially covered by laminar Anhydrite crystals.
We’ll send the Jan Buma collection card to the buyer.
Boccheggiano Mines-Campiano Mine, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany  Italy (±1989)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.8 × 4 cm = 3.1” × 2.7” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

MZ7S5: Excellent sample for the locality. The cubic crystals, translucent and of a uniform yellow color, are on a matrix with white rhombohedral crystals of Calcite and small coatings of Marcasite with the shape so called "cook's comb".
Silius, Cagliari, Sardegna  Italy

Specimen size: 13.1 × 9.8 × 4.9 cm = 5.2” × 3.9” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

FY59J7: Another rarity from the Buma collection. Furthermore its locality is rare. We note the “ochsenhauge” (we can translate as ox eye) crystallization in which coincide four octahedral crystals more or less joined in one of the vertices.
Schönbrunn, Oelsnitz, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany (07/1996)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.9 × 1.9 cm = 2.3” × 1.1” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FG64I7: Very nice miniature from an uncommon locality. Crystals, very aerial, are cubic, blue and translucent and have very well defined faces and edges.
Bösenbrunn, Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Oelsnitz, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.5” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

FB26I7: The specimen is especially interesting both for the locality and for the clearness and the color. We note also its rich paragenesis with Baryte, Chalcopyrite and Tetrahedrite.
Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 3.5” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

FQ76M0: Excellent specimen from a classic German locality. Group of cuboctahedral crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a pale apple green color and excellent brilliance. With some small white Quartz crystals.
Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.2 × 4.4 cm = 3.7” × 2.8” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.1” × 1.1”

FX76M0: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, with well defined and bright faces and edges. Very pale green color and accompanied by Galena crystals. Partially covered by Siderite. A excellent quality specimen for this locality.
Freiberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.5 × 3 cm = 4.2” × 3.7” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

FX76M2: The locality is uncommon. Fluorite crystals are cubic, transparent and practically uncolored, with a slight violet color zoning. On a feldspar matrix (probably Albite) and with some small but really well defined Bertrandite crystals, typical of the locality.
Dörfel Quarry, Dörfel, Annaberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7.2 × 6.5 cm = 3.3” × 2.8” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FY26M2: Small green Fluorite octahedrons on a scalenohedral Calcite crystal. This Czech locality is virtually unknown. The specimen was formerly in the Herb Obodda collection, then the Jan Buma collection and we’ll furnish the corresponding label to the buyer.
Litice nad Orlicí, Žamberk, Hradec Králové Region, Bohemia  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5 × 4.1 cm = 3.7” × 2.0” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

FC61M2: Very uncommon locality not well represented in collections. Group of cubic crystals beveled by the rhombohedron. Color is green and all on matrix.
Ledeč nad Sázavou, Havlíčkův Brod, Vysočina Region, Moravia  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 10.1 × 10 × 3.5 cm = 4.0” × 3.9” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FT36M0: This locality is really exceptional, not well known and less represented in high quality collections. Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals with a nice lilac color. On a Quartz matrix.
The specimen is from the Jan Buma collection (Nr. 010603) and it is accompanied by a label from Herbert P. Obodda (Nr. 2725). We’ll send both labels to the buyer.
Harrachov, Liberec Region, Bohemia  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 2.5” × 1.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

FF86H5: Fluorites from Zinnwald are very rare. The locality is one of the great classics in the history of mineralogy. On the sample the cubes of Fluorite form a crowd on the upper part of the matrix that has Quartz crystals and laminar crystals of Zinnwaldite of pseudohexagonal habit and perfectly sharp. We call attention to Zinnwald as a type locality for Zinnwaldite.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 159 in the volume 82, number 2.
Cinovec/Zinnwald, Erzgebirge, Krusné Hory Mts., Ústí Region, Bohemia  Czech Republic

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8.2 × 4.2 cm = 4.0” × 3.2” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

FQ66M2: A classic mineral locality not particularly known for its Fluorite. Green cubic crystals on a Quartz rich matrix, with Siderite and small Chalcopyrite. The specimen was formerly in the Herb Obodda collection, then the Jan Buma collection and we’ll furnish the corresponding label to the buyer.
Zinnwald/Cinovec, Krusné Hory Mountains, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.8 × 5.6 cm = 2.9” × 2.7” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.3”

FB76J7: Group of bluish octahedral crystals of very well defined faces and edges, on a smoky Quartz crystal partially covered by small crystals of Pyrite and Muscovite and with some small black crystals of Ferberite.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1992)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 4.9 × 4.1 cm = 4.0” × 1.9” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

FY86K9: Group of green octahedron Fluorite crystals, well defined, on a rich Ferberite, Pyrite and Quartz crystal matrix.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1975)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5 × 4.8 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.4”

FD13G0: These Ferberite crystals form a very curious growth in contrast with the matrix of bright Pyrite cubes covering a wide part of the back of the sample. On the Ferberite little Fluorite crystals can be seen.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1993)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 1.7 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 0.7”

FB86F9: The crystal is forming a complex growth in two different phases. In the first one the major octahedron formed and then on the octahedron vertices, smaller Fluorite crystals with dodecahedrons grew. Sphalerite and cubes of Pyrite form a perfect base to the sample. The Fluorite has good color and transparency and the referenced locality has become a classic.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1995)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

FK13F7: An almost unheard of locality for Fluorite. On the Quartz there are numerous octahedra of nicely colored, luminous green Fluorite. The Quartz is slightly smoky and has darker growth phantoms within it.
Kent, Karaganda Oblast  Kazakhstan (±2003)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 4.7 cm = 2.3” × 1.8” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

FV76F7: Very special. The fine crystals of Stibnite form the base and between them there is a first generation of lilac stalactitic Fluorite and a second generation of lighter colored cubic crystals.
Kadamzhay Mine, Fergana Valley, Alai Range, Osh Oblast  Kyrgyzstan (±1999)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5 × 3 cm = 3.0” × 2.0” × 1.2”

FG13H5: Green crystals show combined faces of cube and octahedron, partially covered by rhombohedral crystals of white Calcite. The locality is very uncommon for representative samples of Fluorite.
Bykov (Bikov), Sakhalinskaya Oblast', Far East Region  Russia (±2002)

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 3.1” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4 × 4 cm = 1.6” × 1.6”

FE76H0: The sample has a deep green color. Its crystallography is complex, combining the faces of the cube and octahedron with a silky aspect. The front face is spotted by little crystals of Calcite, bigger on the matrix, and giving a pleasant contrast to the piece.
First Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (±2005)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.5” × 2.1” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 5.2 cm = 2.1” × 2.0”

FH99H0: The transparent crystals have a high quality. Their position, very aerial, on the white matrix of small Quartz crystals, is especially good. A fine and esthetic piece.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (±2001)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.9 × 4.3 cm = 2.8” × 2.3” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.2” × 1.1”

FA53L3: Excellent group of three Fluorite octahedrons (uncommon in the deposit) showing a very aerial position, two of them dominant. Crystals show very sharp faces and edges, totally clear, on a matrix formed by cubic Galena crystals covered by Siderite.
We will send the handwritten label , from Jan Buma collection, to the buyer of this esthetic specimen.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (09/1996)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm = 2.1” × 1.5” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.0” × 1.0”

FB47F7: Gentle colors. The crystals of Quartz have growth phantoms that are more violet, and also inclusions of Chalcopyrite. Among the Quartz there are some crystals of yellow Fluorite, which give a neat and gentle contrast. While the Jan Buma label says that this comes from El Hammam, we think it must be from Aouli even though it is different from the latest material we have seen from that locality.
Aouli, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (±2002)

Specimen size: 10 × 8 × 6 cm = 3.9” × 3.1” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

FA58F7: A very elegant example and different from the ones we normally see from Aouli. On a bed of small crystals of Dolomite there is a group of very well defined crystals of yellow Fluorite, which have contrasting zones of violet. An exceptional specimen for the locality, as Herb Obodda must have known - it was in his collection with label number 459, we will send to a buyer a copy of our analysis of the specimen.
Aouli, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 11 × 8.3 × 5.3 cm = 4.3” × 3.3” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FG63F5: The thing that attracted me to this floater is the strange (and unusual for this locality) color zoning that is between orange and violet, as well as the uneven thickness of the crystals, which makes them look tabular.
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region  Namibia (±1997)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.2” × 1.8” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

FD16AA9: Very aerial aggregate of cubic crystals truncated by octahedral faces. They are transparent, and bright, have a very intense green color and are on matrix.
Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region  Namibia (±2005)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.1 × 2.1 cm = 2.3” × 1.6” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FA6G6: The crystallization of this Schorl features acicular forms and, just with the green Fluorite crystals, the mélange of the two minerals is a nice contrast. The crystals of Fluorite have a complex form.
Davib East Farm 61 (Davib Ost Farm), Karibib District, Erongo Region  Namibia (12/2001)

Specimen size: 8 × 3.7 × 2.9 cm = 3.1” × 1.5” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: (Fluorite) 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.0” × 0.2”

MG56R9: Group of octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent and bright and have an intense and uniform green color.
Riemvasmaak, Orange river area, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province  South Africa (±2007)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.6 × 3.1 cm = 2.8” × 2.2” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

FG9K4: Sharp, yellow cubic crystals of perfectly defined faces and edges on a matrix of microcrystalline Quartz. The locality is very uncommon.
El Portezuelo, Sierra de Ascasti, Catamarca  Argentina (±2003)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.9” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”

FH64H5: Surprising is the uncommon paragenesis on the sample with cubic crystals of Fluorite coexisting with a matrix of Smoky Quartz, prisms of Orthoclase and small crystals of Hematite. We also call attention on the locality where Fluorite is not common.
Formación Papachacra, Departamento Belén, Catamarca  Argentina (±2004)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

FL14K9: Intense green octahedral crystals on an attractive snowy white Quartz crystal matrix.
Amana, Formación Papachacra, Belén, Catamarca  Argentina (±2004)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.9 × 2.5 cm = 2.6” × 1.9” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FF61M2: Cuboctahedral crystals with slight coloring on faces and clearly zoned with a deep violet color on edges and vertices. Fluorite crystals are on an Orthoclase (adularia) and smoky Quartz matrix.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 139 in the volume 88, number 2, Mar/Apr 2013
Formación Papachacra, Belén, Catamarca  Argentina (±2004)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 2.9” × 2.2” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”

FF67K0: Very uncommon association of Rhodochrosite and Fluorite crystals. The Rhodochrosite forms multiple crystals while the Fluorite crystals are rounded and poorly defined with rough surfaces due to complex crystallization.
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department  Peru (±2002)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.8 × 2.4 cm = 2.5” × 1.9” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FC76F5: Apart from the fact that it is octahedral, the pink color is great throughout all of it except for the green heart. A small amount of matrix and Pyrite adds to it.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3 × 3.2 cm = 1.3” × 1.2” × 1.3”

FX64M0: Complex Fluorite crystals with dominant cube and octahedron shapes. Crystals are transparent and show a color zoning, green in the inner core and slightly violet on the edges. According to the label, the Fluorite is accompanied by Cookeite, although we have not analyzed it.
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department  Peru (±1992)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7 × 5.8 cm = 3.7” × 2.8” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FZ46I7: Parallel growth of very bright prismatic crystals on a matrix of white crystals of Quartz. On some of the Hübnerite crystals there are small crystals of Fluorite, blue, transparent and very rich in faces. The sample is with two labels, one from Hamel Mining and Minerals, Los Angeles, and the other from the Scott J. Williams collection.
Huayllapon Mine (Huallapon Mine), Pasto Bueno District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department  Peru

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1 cm = 1.4” × 0.4”

FD46M2: Excellent Chalcopyrite specimen with a huge size and a well defined twin, on a matrix of coloredless octahedral Fluorite crystals accompanied by Quartz, and a little Sphalerite and Galena on the back side.
Mina Animon, Huaron, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco  Peru (±2001)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.5 × 6.4 cm = 3.4” × 2.6” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

FD76K9: Another of the unusual parageneses to which we are accustomed from the collection of Jan Buma. Beveled cubic crystals on Brazilianite and elongated crystals of white Albite.
Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.8 × 3.6 cm = 3.0” × 2.3” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

FK64M0: Fluorite octahedral crystals, one of them dominant, with an intense and vivid color, with small darker crystals with Quartz. On matrix.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2003)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.3 × 4.7 cm = 2.6” × 2.1” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3 cm = 1.3” × 1.2”

FB6F7: Cubes of Fluorite that have grown into each other. Green is dominant but within them there are growth phantoms that are white or even a bit purple. It is a floater.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 14 × 6.5 × 4.3 cm = 5.5” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

FT96M3: Very esthetic group of transparent Fluorite cubic crystals, with an excellent brilliance and intense light green color. On a Quartz crystal matrix.
We’ll send the Jan Buma collection card to the buyer.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 8.4 × 5.5 cm = 5.6” × 3.3” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”

FB76S5: On the sample three generations if crystals coexist. The first one, octahedral, shows very well defined faces and edges and it is dark green. The second, also octahedral, is intense clear green, and the last shows small cubic crystals, colorless and bright.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2003)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.2” × 2.1” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

FF16F5: Two octahedral Fluorites that hug each other. Their surfaces are complex as they have numerous small faces that give them a sugary look. They are a light green color.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 3.3 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.5”

FE58F7: Many Fluorites have neat colors but this one really is impressive. The color is very intense and the crystals are very transparent, so you can see the matrix through them. The cubes are quite large and well placed on the matrix. A great one.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2003)

Specimen size: 9 × 8.5 × 7.5 cm = 3.5” × 3.3” × 3.0”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”

FA57F7: A contrast of color and forms. I think that the way the Calcite has crystallized is original, with white, lenticular crystals that have grown like mushrooms. Between them there are cubes of intensely lilac Fluorite with modified edges.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7 × 5 cm = 4.1” × 2.8” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

FR56M3: Transparent Fluorite crystals with dominant octahedron and cube, and with phantom figures of an intense violet color, on a matrix layered by small white Dolomite crystals.
The specimen is from Jan Buma collection and we’ll send the collection card to the buyer.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 593 in the volume 43, number 5.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.4 × 4.2 cm = 3.8” × 3.7” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”

FB6H5: Crystals, transparent and slightly green, are cubes forming growths on the edges. We stress the excellent esthetics of the sample intensified by a matrix of white tabular crystals of Baryte.
Taolin Mine, Linxiang, Yueyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 11.9 × 10.1 × 6 cm = 4.7” × 4.0” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”

FK76J5: Group of cubic crystals with multiple growth, extraordinarily transparent and with zones of color between uncolored and green. Fluorite is on a matrix of crystals of white Quartz.
The specimen is from Jan Buma collection and we’ll send the collection card to the buyer of the sample.
Taolin Mine, Linxiang, Yueyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2000)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8 × 5.8 cm = 4.2” × 3.1” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

FH76H5: The transparency of the cubic crystal shows a marked zonation of color, distributed following the cleavage planes, corresponding to octahedron faces, and not in the direction of the edges as is usual. In the center of the crystal the higher intensity of color has a mossy appearance. Matrix is a fine and elegant bed of prismatic crystals of Quartz.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.3 × 2 cm = 3.9” × 2.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FE16G6: A wall of Quartz crystals with some curious and recrystallized tips giving shelter to rounded Sphalerite. Jan Buma, on his record card, gives the mineral as Stannite. We had doubts, so we analyzed them and the result was they really are Sphalerite. We also emphasize the cubic crystals of Fluorite on the piece - nearly uncolored but with little brush-strokes of intense blue.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2003)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.5 × 7 cm = 3.3” × 2.6” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: (Sphalerite) 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.0” × 0.6”

MH36R9: Cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, of extraordinary transparency and luster and sky blue color, on a Quartz matrix.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2007)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.9” × 0.9” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

MA86T1: Group of transparent cubic crystals with very sharp faces and edges, intense blue color and violet reflections and with white microcrystalline inclusions. Their matrix is a group of Quartz crystals some of them doubly terminated.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2007)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 2.5” × 1.5” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.9 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”

FT50F6: The crystal is complex, as it combines the basic octahedral with cubic steps creating an Aztec pyramid. Especially notable for the color zoning, light blue in its center and strongly violet on the edges of the cubic faces. The position of the crystal on the matrix of Quartz, Pyrite and Mica make this one really esthetic.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (1999)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.3 × 6.3 cm = 2.9” × 2.5” × 2.5”

MK50R9: Octahedral crystal with the so called "Aztec pyramid" echeloned growth. It is transparent, has a uniform deep violet color and is on a Quartz matrix, with Dolomite and Muscovite.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 5.5 × 4.6 cm = 3.5” × 2.2” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 5.4 cm = 2.2” × 2.1”

FB66G6: The crystal of Fluorite were determined to grow just in the middle, and they did. Between the Quartz and the matrix is possible to distinguish, tenaciously growing, the faces of the Fluorite octahedron and cube with marked bluish zones. The matrix is a tapestry of different crystals which give life to the piece.
The specimen has been published in the book ‘China’, by Berthold Ottens, on page 455.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 11 × 5.5 × 6.5 cm = 4.3” × 2.2” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

FZ6F7: A three way color contrast: Fluorite, Quartz and Rhodochrosite. The Fluorite has formed cubes that have parallel growth on the faces and a leafy look, and the Rhodochrosite has a very special color and form.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2003)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 8.5 × 5 cm = 4.3” × 3.3” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

MT67T3: Very well defined and partially doubly terminated crystal of Ferberite almost completely coated by clear lilac and transparent cubic crystals of Fluorite with uniaxial growths of white lenticular crystals of Calcite and crystals of Quartz.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2003)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.7 × 3.3 cm = 4.1” × 3.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

FM36AA6: Transparent Quartz crystal with a very sharp phantom, its back side partially coated by Dolomite and by Cassiterite microcrystals, with Arsenopyrite and a group of very sharp and bright Chalcopyrite crystals. From the Jan Buma collection, and a rarity for Yaogangxian in that there is no Fluorite on the specimen!
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.4” × 1.2” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

FV63H5: Different than the Mexican Creedites, Chinese crystals, rare on the market, are absolutely uncolored and perfectly transparent. Prisms have exceptional luster and they grow on radial groups on a matrix of cubic crystals of Fluorite.
Qinglong, Guizhou  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.7 × 5.2 cm = 3.2” × 2.6” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

FM27K9: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals of a pleasant pale green color, good transparency and brilliance. On milky Quartz crystals with little or no prism.
Dongshan Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2004)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 11 × 6.2 cm = 4.9” × 4.3” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

FC86G0: An uncommon paragenesis combining a matrix of cubic crystals of colorless Fluorite, yellow octahedrons of Scheelite and pink Dolomite covering Quartz.
Dongshan Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1998)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5 × 3.2 cm = 3.0” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FN56J5: Octahedral crystal with multiple growth forming the so called “Aztec pyramid”, of well defined green color on an elegant matrix of white Quartz crystals.
The specimen is from Jan Buma collection and we’ll send the collection card to the buyer of the sample.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘extraLAPIS’ on page 26, number 35, "Fluorite der Welt".
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Jiangxi  China (±2005)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 6.8 × 4.5 cm = 4.5” × 2.7” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.3 cm = 1.6” × 1.3”

MC27T1: Group of octahedral crystals of Fluorite with echeloned growths on their faces. They are blue, are on a group of Quartz crystals and have a nucleus of Euclase crystals that are sharp, translucent and very bright. A very unusual association.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Jiangxi  China (±2009)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.7 × 5.2 cm = 2.7” × 2.6” × 2.0”

MM77S1: Group of octahedral crystals of fluorite with slightly curved edges, on Quartz matrix. The crystal are translucent green and are zoned deep violet on the edges.
Wushan, De'an, Jiangxi  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 14.4 × 11.8 × 4.5 cm = 5.7” × 4.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

FA58G0: Crystals of extraordinary color are composed of the cube and dodecahedron but neither form predominates. The contrast with Quartz matrix, partially dissolved by acid, is superb.
The specimen has been published in the book ‘China’, by Berthold Ottens, on page 47.
Wushan, De'an, Jiangxi  China (±2002)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8 × 5 cm = 4.1” × 3.1” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

MT76S5: Clear green beveled cubic crystals with geometrical zoning of deep violet shades on the bevels and in the center of the crystal. They are with crystals of Quartz. Being the first samples to arrive from China, the locality is very imprecise, and our efforts to match it have been fruitless due the unusual aspect of the sample.
Jiangxi  China

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.3 × 2.4 cm = 3.3” × 2.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

FN10J1: An excellent specimen, very esthetic and having all the required virtues. Crystals are octahedrons of a perfect definition of faces and edges. Color and luster are also excellent and the crystals are on an elegant matrix of small crystals of Quartz.
It is from the Jan Buma collection (num. 050403). We will send the card of collection to the buyer.
Nanshankeng Mine, Yiwu, Jinhua area, Zhejiang  China (±2005)

Specimen size: 21 × 17.5 × 7 cm = 8.3” × 6.9” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: 4 × 4 cm = 1.6” × 1.6”

FR96M0: Group of beveled cubic Fluorite crystals with curious growths and aggregates. Deep purple color, clearer in some sample zones. Fluorite is accompanied by some white Calcite.
Artaishan, Nanjiang, Xinjiang  China (±2001)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 10.5 × 6.6 cm = 4.8” × 4.1” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”

MV86W8: Cubo-octahedral crystals of Fluorite whose faces are strongly polycrystalline, giving them an almost spherical shape. They have an intense violet color, are partially coated by yellow crystals of Baryte, and are on a Quartz matrix. We’ll send the Jan Buma collection card to the buyer of the sample.
Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan, Guizhou  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 18.5 × 7.2 × 3.3 cm = 7.3” × 2.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

FR60M3: Parallel growth of cubic Fluorite crystals with a clear green color, good transparency and brilliance, partially covered by Quartz. We don’t have other Fluorite references from this locality but we can confirm there are Fluorite mines.
We’ll send the Jan Buma collection card to the buyer.
Pingshi, Guangdong  China

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6.6 × 4 cm = 3.0” × 2.6” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

MX92S1: Lenticular crystals of Rhodochrosite, one of them clearly dominant, that have a deeper color and more "fresh" aspect than usual. They are with Quartz, beveled green crystals of Fluorite and small bluish crystals of Fluorapatite.
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 6.3 × 4.2 cm = 4.3” × 2.5” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

FJ86H5: The sample is very esthetic. It has a green and transparent single crystal with faces of cube and octahedron implanted on a matrix of Orthoclase crystals with small crystals of white Muscovite, Quartz and prisms of Schorl.
Shengus (Shingus), Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2000)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.7 × 3 cm = 2.8” × 1.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2.1 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

FR16M2: Curious and nice composition of cuboctahedral Fluorite crystals of a pale blue color, well defined and perfectly terminationed Schorl crystals, accompanied by Albite and a white Fluorapatite crystal at the base.
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2002)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

FB96K9: Octahedral crystal with rounded edges, intense green color, on a Albite matrix with small Schorl crystals.
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.3”

FD73H8: Color, crystallization, size… A very uncommon specimen. On the crystals, the forms of octahedron dominate but they are quite more complex than they seem, and we call attention, specially, to the existence of the spinel twin, very rare for Fluorite. The crystals are deep pink and they are on a matrix of crystallized Muscovite in which there also are some Quartz crystals. Different and unusual.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2003)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.9 × 4.1 cm = 3.1” × 1.9” × 1.6”

FM64S5: Clear green octahedral crystal of Fluorite on a Muscovite matrix, with a colorless very well defined crystal of Fluorapatite and acicular inclusions of Schorl.
Chumar Bakor, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan  Pakistan (±1999)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.7 × 5.2 cm = 1.9” × 1.5” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.1”

FR61M2: Complex Fluorite crystals, with predominant cubic forms, showing a light green color and on a Quartz matrix.
Nilaw-Kolum Pegmatite, Laghman, Nuristan  Afghanistan (±1993)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.4 × 4.3 cm = 3.5” × 2.5” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 1.8 ×1.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

FT14M3: This locality is well known worldwide for its Elbaite specimens but occasionally some Fluorite specimens have been collected. The sample we are offering shows Fluorite crystals with very aerial and well defined faces and edges. Color varies between white to uncolored, with slight violet tones. On a Quartz matrix.
We’ll send the Jan Buma collection card to the buyer.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph "Afghan Pegmatites" of the Mineralogical Record magazine on page 656 in the volume 48, number 5, September-October 2017
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±2003)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.7 × 2.8 cm = 2.7” × 1.9” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

FD16F5: When one thinks of a Fluorite one does not tend to imagine one like this: on a bed of milky gray Quartz there is a curious group of spherical Fluorite that is decorated by small crystals of Gyrolite and Fluorapophyllita-(K).
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±1999)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.6” × 2.6” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”

EB66K0: Huge complex ball of Fluorite on Quartz with a plus: some minor fluorescent Opal covering the Quartz on the right side of the specimen, and a thick coating of fluorescent Opal is included inside the Fluorite ball contrasting with it, due to its intense pearly white color. Different!.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 301 in the volume 83, number 4.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2003)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.8 × 3.9 cm = 3.6” × 2.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3.2 cm = 1.3” × 1.3”

FZ47M2: Spherical Fluorite growth with a delicate yellow color on a druse of Quartz, all accompanied by a doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal. The neatest feature of this specimen are the trails of small botryoidal Fluorites attached to certain areas of the Calcite.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±1998)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 12.5 × 8 cm = 5.7” × 4.9” × 3.1”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

FC17G6: It looks like a mushroom growth but it’s not. It’s spherical orange Fluorite on a gray matrix of Quartz giving a nice color contrast. The Quartz covering the matrix shows the dark color of the rock giving to the sample a velvet aspect.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (2004)

Specimen size: 10 × 7 × 3.8 cm = 3.9” × 2.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

FP66K0: Very nice spherical formation. Red and with a white coating, probably Opal, but in this case it doesn’t fluoresce. The sphere is on a surface of Quartz (Chalcedony) that covers the matrix.
Mahodari, Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±2003)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.5 × 2 cm = 3.2” × 2.2” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

FC96J7: Very curious formation of a rounded aspect, with parallel sutures and changes of color, from the honey yellow shade to a darker color on the upper part and the opaque white of a coating of fluorescent Opal included inside the Fluorite ball. On matrix with Quartz and Calcite.
Ajanta, Jalgaon, Maharashtra  India (±2000)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.4 × 5 cm = 3.7” × 2.9” × 2.0”

FZ47J6: An excellent sample, very representative from Myanmar and very different to the usual Fluorite specimens. Crystals are cubes with echeloned growths and manifest curvatures on faces and edges which confer a peculiar aspect to the sample.
It proceeds from Jan Buma collection.
Momeik, Mogok, Mandalay  Burma (±2002)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.6” × 2.1” × 1.3”

FF59H5: This group on matrix of green octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges came from a not well known Australian locality.
Mungana, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Queensland  Australia

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.6 × 3 cm = 1.3” × 1.0” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

JR57F5: The crystal is doubly terminated and accompanied by other smaller ones. It shows off its slender silhouette.
Aurangabad, Maharashtra  India (±1998)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.3” × 1.3” × 1.1”

JP57G6: Typical crystallization of Stilbite rising up on a little matrix and with little Stilbite crystals at the base. A graceful piece, of clear color and silky luster.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.4”

JC14E7: Good composition: first there is pink Heulandite-Ca, then Stilbite-Ca with large, white crystals, and then finally in the center a large, white Calcite.
As is so often the case with Jan, esthetic and unusual.
Pandulena Hill, Nasik, Maharashtra  India (±2003)

Specimen size: 9 × 6 × 5 cm = 3.5” × 2.4” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”

JB12N1: Bow-tie growths, some of them doubly terminated that contrast on a bed of small orange crystals of Heulandite-Ca and on a matrix of much altered basaltic rock.
Dharampur, Gujarat  India (±2000)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 7.6 × 3.9 cm = 3.7” × 3.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.5 cm = 1.2” × 0.6”

JR11N1: Clear crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K) formed by the prism and a very acute dipyramid, with very sharp crystals of Stilbite-Ca and on a columnar growth of Quartz.
Shakur Quarry, Nasik, Maharashtra  India (±2003)

Specimen size: 13 × 3.1 × 3 cm = 5.1” × 1.2” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.9” × 0.4”

JT14F5: I find it hard to imagine how something like this formed. The center, possibly of a Quartz stalactite, has been completely covered by Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals of various sizes. A small brown Stilbite adds to the specimen.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 6 × 3.5 cm = 5.7” × 2.4” × 1.4”

JD86G6: Undoubtedly the most prominent aspect of the piece is its color. An intense and unusual orange color, affecting both the Fluorapophyllite-(K) and the Stilbite and contrasting with the matrix, dark in some places, white or pink in other. A very attractive ensemble.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 16 × 14.5 × 6 cm = 6.3” × 5.7” × 2.4”

JA66F2: Most of the crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K) are doubly terminated, formed from a prism and very sharp pyramids. The brilliance and transparency are very intense and the crystals of pink Stilbite seem to soften the esthetics, giving balance to the specimen.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (±1996)

Specimen size: 13 × 8 × 4.5 cm = 5.1” × 3.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1 cm = 1.1” × 0.4”

JE89E5: Yes, this is an exceptional specimen! The inclusions of Julgoldite-Fe that dye the crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K) towards the bottom of the specimen, by the contrast they create, make the transparent ones in the upper half very appealing. While the photo cannot show it, the play of color and reflections is spectacular.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (±1988)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7 × 4.7 cm = 3.9” × 2.8” × 1.9”

JB62J7: Doubly terminated crystals, green and transparent, that combine the faces of a very short prism with the dipyramid and the pinacoid, and, so, they take cubic shape. The matrix is also rich in groups of bow-tie shaped Stilbite.
Lonavala, Maharashtra  India (±2001)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.6 × 3.7 cm = 3.2” × 2.2” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

JY11N1: Pseudocubic green crystals formed by the prism, a dipyramid and the pinacoid. They are on matrix, with Stilbite-Ca, and partially coated by fibrous crystals of Okenite.
Lonavala, Maharashtra  India (±2001)

Specimen size: 11 × 9 × 3.8 cm = 4.3” × 3.5” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

JZ9N1: Pseudocubic green bright crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K) formed by the prism, a dipyramid and the pinacoid. They are on matrix, with bow-tie growths of Stilbite-Ca and very bright crystals of Heulandite-Ca.
Pashan Hills, Pune District, Maharashtra  India (±2001)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.1 × 3.4 cm = 3.7” × 2.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

JC87E8: An explosion of form and brilliance. For all my experience in color analysis, I cannot quite understand how such gentle colors can result in the superb contrast this specimen has. All the minerals, Fluorapophyllite-(K), Scolecite and Stilbite, seem to combine with great elegance.
The excellent state of the specimen, which looks very fragile and delicate, show how well it has been cared for by those who collected it and have looked after it since.
Rahuri, Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 9.5 × 6 cm = 5.7” × 3.7” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.4”

JB68E7: This one deserves a good description. The crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K) are very long (prismatic) and seem to fly on the matrix. They are a deep green color. Between them there is something that looks like a coral Aragonite – in reality it is Scolecite. So between these the over effect is pleasing and it would look great in a cabinet display.
Rahuri, Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 11 × 9 × 5.2 cm = 4.3” × 3.5” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 1.6 cm = 2.2” × 0.6”

JV90E5: Elegance and beauty combine in this sample that Jan Buma got in Jalgaon. Luminous, clean, with crystals that appear to be very well defined, given the contrast between the green and the white.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 65 in number 2011/1
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (±2000)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.5 cm = 0.5” × 0.2”

JB87E8: Unlike other Cavansites this one has thick tabular crystals that are well separated from each other and are very luminous. They are perfect and well positioned on the Stilbite matrix. Much better than many of the other Cavansites we have seen.
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±2001)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.8 × 4 cm = 3.1” × 2.7” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.5” × 0.2”

JA8J7: Green globular growths of Prehnite and, on them, there are clear prismatic crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K), most of them doubly terminated.
Malad, Bombay, Maharashtra  India (±2001)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.6 × 3.1 cm = 2.7” × 1.8” × 1.2”

JA76E7: There is good contrast between the yellow Calcite and the green spherical Prehnite. The crystals of calcite are well positioned on the Prehnite matrix and the overall effect is delicate and soothing. A very fine specimen.
Malad quarry, Bombay, Maharashtra  India (±2003)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 7 × 6 cm = 4.5” × 2.8” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

JA96F0: This crystal, a simple scalenohedron, is transparent so one can see something unusual within it: a ‘fuzzball’ of Okenite inclusions! The faces of the crystal are partially covered by green Fluorapophyllite-(K) and white Stilbite. On the rear the areas of exfoliation do not affect the esthetics of the specimen.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.5 × 9.5 cm = 4.5” × 3.3” × 3.7”

JE64G6: Floater, transparent crystal of Calcite with an original covering of clear Stilbite and green Fluorapophyllite-(K). On the back of the Calcite there is a little matrix with Okenite inclusions in Calcite.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±2002)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.5 × 4.8 cm = 3.2” × 2.6” × 1.9”

JJ88F1: We have often seen in other specimens how Jan's good taste and sensitivity led him to select simple and small examples of the best of each mineral. This is one of the best examples of his style. The radial bundles of Scolecite compete with each other to show off their beauty. The central crystal of Fluorapophyllite-(K), suspended on a bundle of Scolecite as if by magic, is the final touch to this work of art.
Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra  India (±2000)

Specimen size: 20 × 11 × 11 cm = 7.9” × 4.3” × 4.3”

JV58F1: Nodules of snow white Gyrolite surrounding the trunk of Prehnite, which is clear. So white on white, but for all that it has intensity and life.
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra  India (±1991)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 2.5” × 1.4” × 1.2”

JV58F2: The rare mineral Julgodite-(Fe) covers the basalt matrix. The small crystals, which are quite dark, are noticeable as they contrast well with the crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K), which are doubly-terminated, brilliant, water clear and with sharp pyramids.
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra  India (±2000)

Specimen size: 20 × 13 × 5 cm = 7.9” × 5.1” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”

JB6E8: A well formed sample that is three centimeters tall. The Elbaite crystal is well defined and the crystals of Lepidolite give it an elegant touch.
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California  USA (±1979)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 0.7”

JH14E5: This one appeals to me because it is unusual. The Calcite crystals, which are very well defined, doubly terminated, and clear, appear to be randomly spread across the dark matrix.
Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (±1980)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6 × 6.5 cm = 3.5” × 2.4” × 2.6”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 0.9 cm = 1.1” × 0.4”

JD36E3: All the pseudo minerals I have seen seem rather mat to me, and when one is dealing with limonite they tend to have an earthy look. So this one stands out for the surprising brilliance and its achitecture, which is very fine.
Pelican Point, Utah Lake, Utah County, Utah  USA (±1996)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

JX63F1: A small, complete specimen that has all the features typical of its bigger brothers. So it is a good example for those people who love miniatures, above all else for its intense color.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA (±1995)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.5” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

JA26E8: For its size the sample is really precious. Like a fossilized crystal of fern, the Silver surrounds the Calcite matrix, both of which sit on a fragment of rock that acts as its matrix.
Batopilas, Andrés del Río District, Municipio Batopilas, Chihuahua  Mexico (±1993)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.4” × 1.0” × 0.8”

JA13E5: This elegant specimen appealed to me because of its nice color hints. With thin matrix on which the, sometimes doubly terminated, crystals of amethyst grow.
Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Municipio Tatatila, Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave)  Mexico (±1979)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.1” × 1.1” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”

ER96E5: Superb group of deep blue Azurite with hints of green where it has been converted into Malachite. The crystal is complete at the base (it is recrystallized) and the upper terminations are perfect, with no dings.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco (±1982)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 1.5” × 0.7” × 0.4”

EH96E3: Small but great. Really good color and presentation of a group of crystals that have no damage to their tips. So almost a miracle!
Bou Azzer (Bou Azzer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region  Morocco (±1991)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.5” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.6 cm = 0.2”

JK13E8: Balanced group of crystals of Sulfur on Calcite matrix. As is so often the case with this collection it was carefully selected to provide great pleasure.
Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Podkarpackie  Poland (±1991)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.2” × 1.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

ET97E7: This has a very lively and extraordinary color. It is also special as these Barytes rarely appear on the market, and when they do come from old collections (which is the case with this one – it has both Jan Buma and Geologisch Centrum de Ootmarsum, Holland labels.) Very spectacular, given its intense color.
Pöhla, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen  Germany

Specimen size: 6 × 3 × 4 cm = 2.4” × 1.2” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 1.9” × 1.1”