Reference Specimens
Spanish Fluorite

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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM

The region where the Asturian Fluorites are found is very beautiful, as you can see in this view from Villaviciosa.
Loroñe, a pleasant village next to the Fito hill, which is where the Emilio mine is located.
Views of the village of Berbes, famous across the world for its Fluorites.
A typical 'hórreo' (grain store) in the village of Caravia Alta, which is very close to the Jaimina mine.



Caravia Fluorite

Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

NM11AN1: Group of Fluorite crystals with sharp forms of the tetrahexahedron, translucent and brilliant, and with a pale lilac color. An old specimen from the San Lino Mine, currently very scarce and even more so with this quality.
San Lino Quarry, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, Cerracín, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.91” × 0.67” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

Fluorite
 

NT27AM5: Group of crystals with cubic habit along with highly developed unusual forms of the tetrahexahedron. Transparent, lustrous, and uniform pale blue. The specimen comes from the Pedro Hernández collection and is from the San Lino mine, the precursor to the later Jaimina and Emilio mines located in the same area.
San Lino Quarry, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, Cerracín, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1981)

Specimen size: 6 × 6.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.36” × 2.44” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

Fluorescent long UV & minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Pedro Hernández
Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions
Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions. Fluorite with hydrocarbon inclusions.
 

MF89AL3: Group of sharp transparent crystals between colorless and slightly bluish. These crystals have a clear geometric zoning marked by the presence of small hydrocarbon inclusions. It comes from a historic mine, long abandoned and which was the first find in Spain for crystals with tetrahexahedral growths.
San Lino Quarry, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, Cerracín, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 11 × 9.8 × 6.7 cm = 4.33” × 3.86” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.38” × 1.34”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

JAR76AP8: Very sharp, transparent, colorless Fluorite crystals, on matrix, with Quartz.
Of good quality for the Aurora mine, the specimen comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelley.
Aurora Mine, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, El Cuetu, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.4 × 4.8 cm = 2.80” × 2.52” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

Former collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly
Fluorite with Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
 

EM66AM2: Aerial Fluorite crystals, very sharp, translucent, with an intense violet color with geometric color zoning on the edges. On matrix, with Quartz crystals. The specimen comes from the El Vallín cut, incidentally opened in 2002 and currently fully covered.
El Vallín cut (La Curva - Carrales), Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Valle, Los Pozos, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 4.5 × 2.3 cm = 3.66” × 1.77” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”


BERBES AREA


Berbes Fluorite

Fluorite from Berbes, Asturias, Spain, one of the classic fluorite localities in Europe at the moment. Given the poor state of the area, the local collectors, who used to find those amazing pockets of fluorite, are finding fewer and fewer good specimens. These are specimens that come from some careful hunting by the locals.

Fluorite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NXM56AO7: Very sharp Fluorite crystal, transparent, with great luster and very distinct geometric color zoning in different shades of violet and on a Baryte matrix.
The specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 782), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.34” × 1.10” × 0.91”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side
 

NZ16AL9: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals on a base of Baryte. The transparent and very shiny crystals are lilac to blue in color and display marked geometric zoning.
The specimen, a Spanish classic, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 77), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.46” × 0.87” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Baryte
 

EX27AM1: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, very shiny, with an intense and vivid violet color, geometric color zoning, on a matrix of white lamellar Baryte crystals. A high quality Spanish classic.
The specimen is from the prestigious Fluorite collection of Pierre-Marie Guy.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.1 × 4 × 3.6  cm = 1.61” × 1.57” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

Former collection of Pierre-Marie Guy
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite on Quartz
Fluorite on Quartz. Fluorite on Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NFL96AO7: Very aerial and individualized Fluorite crystals, sharp, transparent, with great luster and very distinct geometric color zoning in different shades of violet. On matrix with coatings of small Quartz crystals. A very fine miniature.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.65” × 1.10” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NHB96AO7: Group of sharp Fluorite crystals, with very well defined polycrystalline growths on the faces of the cube, between translucent and transparent, shiny and with very marked geometric color zoning in different shades of violet.
The specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 222), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 1.81” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.42” × 0.83”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFX96AO0: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and finely beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, with good luster and a marked geometric color zoning which varies from lilac to intense violet, and with a group of white lamellar Baryte crystals.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.81” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.87”

Fluorite with Baryte
 

NA66P1: Group of cubic crystals of excellent transparency, very deep color and a marked geometrical zoning. The group has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Baryte.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.36” × 1.73” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 0.79”

Baryte minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side
 

NC56P1: Group of cubic crystals of excellent transparency, very deep color and a marked geometrical zoning. The group has grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Baryte.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.56” × 1.89” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.06”

Baryte minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz
 

VA16G8: A classic sample from Berbes of Fluorite crystals, of a good transparency, luster and color, with a Quartz druse and a “book” group of Baryte crystals.
This specimen was photographed and published in the magazine "Lapis" number 7-8 / 2013, page 19
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.60” × 2.13” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Top
Top
 

ND99AK6: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, very bright, with an intense light blue color, with fine geometric zoning in violet tones, and Baryte matrix. A very elegant Spanish classic that comes from Miguel David Martínez's collection (no. 288), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.4 × 4 cm = 2.68” × 1.73” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.42”

Minor fluorescence long UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte
 

SV2270TRP: Aggregate of very white, lustrous, leafy Baryte crystals where a cascade of completely transparent and translucent cubic Fluorite crystals, of a delicate soft blue color and with their edges beveled by dodecahedron faces, adorn and give harmony to a piece that is already very aesthetic.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.68” × 1.89” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

Baryte minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side
Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TLB77AO4: Group of crystals finely beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, with good luster and a pale violet color, on a matrix of white Baryte crystals. Very perfect, this floater piece has not suffered the slightest abrasion.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.83” × 2.17” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51”

Fluorite
 

NR46AI7: Groups of cubic crystals on matrix, beveled by smooth dodecahedron surfaces, transparent, extraordinarily bright and with a very intense and uniform violet color. With a great esthetic finesse. The sample has been very recently discovered in spite of the enormous difficulties that, currently, obstruct finding new Fluorite at the locality.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (05-06/2018)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.1 × 2.8 cm = 3.07” × 2.01” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte
 

SV2260TDB: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, with faces and edges well defined, some beveled by dodecahedron faces, of an intense and uniform lilac color with geometric color zoning and with leafy white Baryte crystals.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5.2 × 5 cm = 3.07” × 2.05” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 3 × 3 cm = 1.18” × 1.18”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz  

ER69AI0: Isolated Fluorite crystals on a Quartz matrix that are very clear and bright and have the dominant form of the cube finely beveled by the dodecahedron. They have a uniform clear lilac color. Their color and general appearance are different from the classic Fluorite from Berbes.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6 × 2 cm = 3.19” × 2.36” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
 

NP63P1: Cubic crystals with growths of clear, very uniform lilac color The crystals have grown on an aggregate of white laminar crystals of Baryte.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.35” × 2.44” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

Baryte minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte  

MJ89AJ5: Group of transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals with a very intense and uniform lilac color. They are on matrix with white laminar Baryte crystals.
The sample, a classic, is from the Eugeni Bareche collection whose card we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6 × 5.8 cm = 3.39” × 2.36” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”

Former collection of Eugeni Bareche
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NP73AK5: Group of Fluorite crystals of cubic habit, with fine polycrystalline growths on some of the edges, transparent, lustrous, with a very deep lilac color, with geometric zoning of different shades. On a matrix of white Baryte crystals. A Spanish classic of excellent quality, very balanced.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.4 × 5.6 cm = 3.39” × 3.31” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 4.1 cm = 1.81” × 1.61”

Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions
 

EJ70AI7: Floater group of cubic crystals with very well defined phantoms and polycrystalline growths, transparent, very bright and with inclusions of white Baryte crystals.
The sample, a Spanish classic, was referenced in the ‘Mineral Up’ magazine (2007/1, pg. 27, photo 3) and it is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1989)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm = 3.54” × 2.17” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.98”

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MBX70AP4: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, very sharp, transparent, with good luster and geometric color zoning in different shades of violet.
Very fine and elegant.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5 × 3 cm = 3.62” × 1.97” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.98”

Minor fluorescence long UV
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte  

TC190GY: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals with an intense, deep and uniform violet color, on a matrix of white lenticular Baryte crystals. The specimen comes from the Casado Margolles collection, whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Cuetu L'Aspa, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 × 8 × 6.6 cm = 3.62” × 3.15” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.10” × 0.59”

Former collection of Casado Margolles
Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte
 

TBJ92AP9: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, with very well defined geometric growths, with an intense color between violet and blue, and on a matrix of lenticular Baryte crystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Raúl Sanabria Orellana (no number) and was previously in that of Ignacio Gaspar Sintes (number FLU-44). We will send the labels of both collections to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2011)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm = 3.94” × 2.17” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.3 cm = 1.34” × 1.30”

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Baryte with Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Baryte with Fluorite
 

SV2380TMA: Group of transparent and lustrous Fluorite crystals, of deep and uniform lilac color, on a matrix of very clean white lenticular Baryte crystals which are larger and better developed than those usually found there.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.6 × 5.1 cm = 4.13” × 3.39” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.63” × 0.47”

Baryte fluorescent long & short UV
Baryte with Fluorite. Front
Front
Baryte with Fluorite. Side
Side
Baryte with Fluorite.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NFT89AN8: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense, deep and uniform violet color, with small white lamellar coatings of Baryte and with preferential growth orientations.
This specimen, of excellent quality for the locality, comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 798), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2004)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 6.2 × 5 cm = 4.41” × 2.44” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.26” × 1.10”

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ELB68AP1: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, very lustrous and violet-blue in color, with very marked geometric zoning and with groups of lenticular white Baryte crystals. A quality Spanish classic.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1978)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 7.3 × 5.4 cm = 4.41” × 2.87” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

Baryte minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Side
Side
Fluorite with Baryte.
Baryte with Fluorite
Baryte with Fluorite. Baryte with Fluorite.
 

TF86AN2: Group of transparent and lustrous Fluorite crystals on a matrix of white lenticular Baryte crystals of a larger size than those usually found here.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.4 × 9.2 × 8 cm = 4.49” × 3.62” × 3.15”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.47”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NBC1AP9: Floater group of Fluorite crystals with cube shapes beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, shiny, and of a uniform violet color, with geometric zoning of deeper tones. High quality and perfection.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1982)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 10.4 × 4.4 cm = 4.61” × 4.09” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 0.79”

Fluorite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite.
Fluorite.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
 

R47FI0: The sample is from a find of 1985. On a base of white Baryte crystals were formed a series of cubic blue, bright and completely transparent, Fluorite crystals.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1985)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 11.2 × 5.8 cm = 4.65” × 4.41” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NH90AM1: Group of Fluorite crystals with cubic habit and polycrystalline formations on the faces. Transparent, with good luster and a very deep blue-violet color.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (nº. 300) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2016)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 8.3 × 3.3 cm = 4.80” × 3.27” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.10”

Minor fluorescence long UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte
 

SV340MTX: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit and polycrystalline formations on the faces, transparent, with good luster and a deep bluish violet color, associated with very sharp and leafy crystals of Baryte between the Fluorite crystals. It comes from the Berbes mining district, a locality whose name inevitably brings to mind these beautiful fluorites.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.5 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm = 4.92” × 2.52” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.98”

Fluorite with Baryte
 

C96XDD9: A rather different pocket, that was found in 1993, produced this specimen with transparent crystals that are light blue and that has all its color concentrated in the violet phantoms within the crystals and is very fluorescent, which is very unusual for Berbes Fluorite. Also with lots of Baryte, this floater really shows the features of this unusual pocket.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (11/1993)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 8.8 × 6.5 cm = 5.31” × 3.46” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

Extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz.
 

NE6F0: The crystals are well-defined cubes, brilliant, a great violet color, and with clear color zoning. This very beautiful specimen has the typical Baryte and Calcite.
El Frondil, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (05/2004)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8 × 3 cm = 3.35” × 3.15” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

Fluorite with Baryte
 

TH47W4: Group of cubic crystals finely beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. They are bright, with clear lilac color and are very transparent neatly allowing the matrix of yellowish-white Baryte to be seen.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.1 × 5.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.98” × 2.05” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.75” × 0.71”

Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
 

NF48AB4: Aggregate of transparent and deep violet Fluorite crystals with very well defined geometrical growths and on a matrix of Quartz crystals. Being from a classic locality, this particular sample is from a not so well known point and its aspect is slightly different from the usual Fluorite in the area.
Núcleo rocoso, Cuetu L'Aspa, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.2 × 6.6 cm = 4.06” × 3.62” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

Fluorite with Baryte

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EP91AJ2: Group of cuboctahedral Fluorite crystals They are transparent and very bright with a very intense color and are on a matrix of Baryte crystals.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9.7 × 7 cm = 4.65” × 3.82” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 4 × 4 cm = 1.57” × 1.57”

Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite with Baryte.
 

GG96AK0: Group of crystals with dominant cube shapes beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, very bright and with an extraordinarily intense, uniform and deep color. With minor Baryte. The specimen, of very high quality, comes from the Casado Margolles collection (number FB 56) whose record we will send to the buyer.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.3 × 10.7 × 6.4 cm = 4.84” × 4.21” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5 cm = 2.36” × 1.97”

Former collection of Casado Margolles
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz
 

MN87J5: Esthetic group of cubic blue violet crystals, very clear and with very well marked geometric zoning, with groups of Baryte crystals and, furthermore, a nest of Quartz crystals which have a clear crystal of Fluorite at its center.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1995)

Specimen size: 16.5 × 8.5 × 5 cm = 6.50” × 3.35” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.51”

Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz.
Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz. Fluorite with Baryte and Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz.
 

MT49AD2: Cluster of cubic crystals finely beveled by the dodecahedron. They are transparent, bright and have a very intense and deep lilac color. The sample has characteristics that are quite different from the more usual Berbes crystals because they came from an unusual place, the Cuetu IV (North block)
Cuetu IV (bloque Norte), Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1983)

Specimen size: 17.2 × 9.7 × 7.5 cm = 6.77” × 3.82” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

Fluorite with Baryte
 

MT50AJ5: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals with very well defined polycrystalline growths. They are translucent with a purple color with mauve shades and are with an aerial group of white Baryte crystals. A Spanish classic.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 17.5 × 11.5 × 6.7 cm = 6.89” × 4.53” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.5 cm = 2.05” × 1.77”

Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte
 

SV2540NEZ: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals intergrown with each other, with marked polycrystalline growths on the faces of the cube and of a very deep and uniform mauve color, accompanied by small leafy Baryte crystals. The specimen is not perfect, it has some small dings on the edges, but stands out for the locality of origin, the Ana concession, better known as the 'Mina Ana'. The specimens that came out there are not usually very aesthetic (not to be confused with everything found later by artisanal diggings in the area of Playa Vega) so that, due to its quality, this specimen can be considered a rarity for what is usually found there.
Ana claim, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1982)

Specimen size: 17.7 × 13.8 × 8.7 cm = 6.97” × 5.43” × 3.43”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 2 cm = 1.46” × 0.79”

Fluorite with Baryte

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TMP26AO0: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and a marked geometric color zoning, which varies from lilac to intense violet, and with a very aerial group of white lamellar Baryte crystals. A specimen of great quality.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 22.5 × 15.8 × 5.7 cm = 8.86” × 6.22” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte.

Berbes Fluorite - Coquera del Liso

In Berbes, Asturies, one of the most famous pockets was the pocket of 'Coquera del Liso' found in March 1993. One huge rock, which weighed more than 50 tons, had fallen from the cliffs. Inside this rock local collectors found great water clear Fluorite crystals with naturally modified corners, frequently associated with Quartz and Baryte. Fabre Minerals bought the whole pocket. These specimens come from this find.

Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz  

LDF14AB5: Cubic crystals beveled by the dodecahedron, one of them very isolated. They are very transparent and bright, have a violet color and are on a Quartz matrix. The samples from the Coquera del Liso are from an unique find in 1993, when only a few samples of great quality were recovered. They were individually numbered and, at that time, we added a commemorative label with details of the find. We’ll send to the buyer, with the sample, this numbered commemorative label.
Coquera del Liso, La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03/1993)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 6.5 × 6 cm = 3.11” × 2.56” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz  

LBE16AB5: Cubic crystals beveled by the dodecahedron, very transparent and brigh. They have a violet color and are on matrix, with Quartz crystals. The samples from the Coquera del Liso are from an unique find in 1993, when only a few samples of great quality were recovered. They were individually numbered and, at that time, we added a commemorative label with the details of the find. We’ll send to the buyer, with the sample, this numbered commemorative label.
Coquera del Liso, La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03/1993)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.8 × 3.8 cm = 3.15” × 2.28” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.31” × 0.31”

Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz  

LCR16AB5: Cubic crystals beveled by the dodecahedron, very transparent and bright. They have a violet color and are on a Quartz matrix, with small Baryte crystals. The samples from the Coquera del Liso are from an unique find in 1993, when only a few samples of great quality were recovered. They were individually numbered and, at that time, we added a commemorative label with the details of the find. We’ll send to the buyer, with the sample, this numbered commemorative label.
Coquera del Liso, La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03/1993)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.6 × 2.4 cm = 3.31” × 2.20” × 0.94”

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


LA VIESCA - LA COLLADA AREA


La Collada old timers

The "Collada" and "Josefa-Veneros" veins at La Collada rate among the greatest in Spanish mineralogy. All Spanish collectors dream of having one of the extraordinary specimens in their collection. The specimens have a wide variation in, normally intense, color, modified edges to the crystals, and really very special forms. Although people recently found material in the same region and it is not that distinct from the classic ones, the old timers still have that special something.

Fluorite with Quartz
 

B6RS6: From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this Fluorite on Quartz is slightly different from the classic Fluorites on Calcite, which are characteristic from that vein.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.75” × 0.55” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

X56RS6: From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.98” × 0.75” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NBA16AP6: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent, and of a very intense color, deeper on the edges.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 1.14” × 0.98” × 0.71”

Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Front with light behind
Front with light behind
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Rear
Rear
 

B9RH2: Fluorite with beveled cubic and very transparent crystals. The main crystal shows a complete world in it, with a curious distribution of color. From the mythic Josefa-Veneros Norte vein, at La Collada.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.22” × 0.87” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

Fluorite with Calcite

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NFB46AP6: Very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and a violet color with geometric growths of more intense tones on the edges, on a Calcite matrix.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is now very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.85” × 1.30” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NFJ27AP6: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent, and of an intense color, deeper on the edges.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is nowadays very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.14” × 0.94”

Fluorite
Fluorite  

NP56AJ8: Druse of transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals with an intense violet color, denser on the edges and at the center in some of the crystals, with a very well defined color zoning and partially coated by microcrystalline Quartz.
An Asturian classic from the Carlos Prieto collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 3.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.54” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

Former collection of Carlos Prieto Paramio
Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite.
 

RA12I2: A typical group from Josefa-Veneros, with beveled edges and the color very much intense on the edges than in the faces of the cube. The specimen can be considered as a classic from the locality.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.20” × 1.65” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.43”

Calcite fluorescent short UV & low fluorescence long UV
Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NXJ86AP6: Druse, on matrix, of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent, and of an intense color, deeper on the edges.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.3 × 1.7 cm = 2.20” × 1.69” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz
Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Pyrite and Quartz. Top
Top
 

N8RH2: Pyrite and Fluorite are covering the terminal faces of Quartz crystals forming a little valley between them also covered by crystals. Some cubes of fluorite are so extremely beveled that they nearly appear as dodecahedra. A classic sample from the mythic Josefa-Veneros Norte vein, at La Collada.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.28” × 1.50” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.12” × 0.12”

Fluorite
 

TF49W9: Aggregate of transparent cubic crystals beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. Their color is between violet and blue, with diffuse color zoning. The simple has, on its back, some remains of Calcite that prove the locality is “Filón Josefa-Veneros”, one of the great classics of Spanish mineralogy.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7.7 × 5.5 cm = 3.27” × 3.03” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.61” × 1.38”

Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Front with light behind
Front with light behind

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NXJ57AP6: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent, violet in the center of the crystal and between blue and lilac around the edges.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is very difficult to obtain specimens anymore.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.73” × 1.54”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NTR96AP6: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with a cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent, violet in the center of the crystal and between blue and lilac around the edges.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is very difficult to obtain specimens anymore.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.1 × 5 cm = 2.40” × 2.01” × 1.97”

Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Front with light behind
Front with light behind
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite. Top
Top
Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TQX37AP5: Group of Fluorite crystals on matrix, one of them dominant, with a cubic habit beveled by the typically rough faces of the dodecahedron. From the famous Josefa-Veneros vein, a classic of Spanish mineralogy.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 4.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NJA88AP6: Group of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, finely beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent, and violet in color with bluish tones.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is nowadays very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7.4 × 3.4 cm = 3.31” × 2.91” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.3 cm = 1.57” × 0.51”

Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NCA37AP6: Druse, on matrix, of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, shiny, with inclusions, and a color between blue and violet, more intense on the edges.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is nowadays very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.4 × 3.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.13” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.79”

Fluorite
 

MR69AJ2: Group of cubic-shaped crystals, clearly beveled by dodecahedron faces, between transparent and translucent and showing an intense and uniform violet color. A classic of the Asturian Fluorites.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 7.3 × 3.4 cm = 4.02” × 2.87” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.98”

Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Rear
Rear
Fluorite. Top
Top
Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MV56AI7: Group of cubic crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces that have polycrystalline growths. They are transparent, bright, and have a deep violet color on the edge and are sky blue in the interior.
The sample, a Spanish classic with a great quality, is 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 when the famous samples from the Josefa-Veneros vein were collected.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 8.7 × 8.2 cm = 4.88” × 3.43” × 3.23”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.42”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NFB88AP6: Druse of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit strongly beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with bright luster and an intense violet color with bluish tones.
From a classic Spanish locality from which it is very difficult to obtain specimens.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 8.6 × 5.6 cm = 5.00” × 3.39” × 2.20”

Fluorite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite. Rear / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Light behind
Light behind
 

NA70AH7: Group of large cube-shaped crystals beveled by the polycrystalline surfaces of the dodecahedron. They are transparent, with a color between violet and blue and have color zonation. The sample is a Spanish classic.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1970)

Specimen size: 12.7 × 10.7 × 6.4 cm = 5.00” × 4.21” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.17” × 2.17”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TML93AP9: Group of cubic crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces with polycrystalline surfaces, transparent, shiny, purple in the areas around the edges and light blue inside. A Spanish classic, without the Calcite that characterizes the deposit, but of high quality.
Josefa-Veneros vein, 75 level, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1974)

Specimen size: 14.8 × 11 × 8.4 cm = 5.83” × 4.33” × 3.31”

Main crystal size: 7.3 × 6.3 cm = 2.87” × 2.48”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Light behind
Light behind

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