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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 AREA


Fluorite from the Emilio Mine

The Fluorite from the Emilio Mine is known for its incredible transparency and brilliance. When these two aspects come together with the fact that the majority of specimens are colorless they become almost invisible. So one can see the matrix through the crystals as well as other minerals under them or included in them.
Very few perfect specimens are found, as the type of deposit makes collecting them very hard, so any undamaged ones that do come out are highly sought after by both Spanish and other collectors.

Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Baryte
 

SV140TFB: Aerial group of very transparent Fluorite crystals, with a very distinct cubic habit and with
vertices slightly rounded by the bevelled edges. They are lustrous, with slightly bluish tones and are associated with leafy Baryte crystals visible thanks to the transparency of the Fluorite crystals.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2010)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.42” × 0.83”

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

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MLF86AP3: Druse, on matrix, of Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit, transparent, with extraordinary luster and an intense violet color, a color that does not usually occur with such intensity in specimens from the Emilio mine.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.7 × 2.9 cm = 1.61” × 1.46” × 1.14”

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

Fluorite.
Fluorite on Baryte
Fluorite on Baryte.
 

NY12F0: Perfect cubic crystals that are water clear allowing one to see the white Baryte they sit on. There are also some scalenohedrons of Calcite with the Fluorite.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (03-04/2004)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 0.91”

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

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NLB27AO5: Very aerial group on matrix of crystals with a sharp cubic shape, very transparent, lustrous and completely colorless.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.6 × 3 cm = 1.89” × 1.81” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

MC7AD3: Aggregate, on matrix, of cubic crystals with tetrahexahedron and dodecahedron faces. They are colorless, transparent and bright. The sample is from the Alain Martaud collection.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1990)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.6 × 2.4 cm = 2.20” × 1.81” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Alain Martaud
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite  

XM70NL: Very sharp crystals of Fluorite, transparent, lustrous and with a very pale blue color, almost water-clear, on matrix, with white lamellar crystals of Baryte and scalenohedral Calcite crystals, some of them doubly terminated.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (07/2014)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.2 × 4.3 cm = 2.68” × 1.65” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite.
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.
 

NP12F2: A growth form that is quite uncommon and that shows off the intense zoning of the crystals. The edges appear to be rounded by the rough forms of the pyramid that, curiously, is not visible in the center of the faces.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/04)

Specimen size: 7 × 9 × 3.5 cm = 2.76” × 3.54” × 1.38”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite
 

NJ50AL7: Group of almost colorless, very slightly bluish crystals of Fluorite, with the extraordinary transparency that characterizes the best specimens from the Emilio Mine. With scalenohedral white Calcite crystals, phantoms, and small Dolomite crystals.
This very perfect specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 215), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.78” × 2.91” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite.
Fluorite with inclusions
Fluorite with inclusions.
Fluorite with inclusions.
 

NT63G8: Group of transparent crystals between uncolored and slightly blue. Crystals are very sharp and some of them have a clear zonation sharply marked by the presence of hydrocarbon inclusions.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.3 × 5.3 cm = 3.82” × 2.87” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.59”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite
 

SM130GTM: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, lustrous and colorless, with coatings of complex white Calcite crystals.
This specimen comes from the Casado Margolles collection (number FAE21), whose catalogue card we will send to the buyer.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.8 × 8 × 4.9 cm = 3.86” × 3.15” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

Former collection of Casado Margolles
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite.
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite with Baryte.
 

NA16G8: Crystals are clear and between uncolored and slightly blue. More isolated than usual, they show dissolution forms on cubic faces and they have grown on a matrix partially impregnated with hydrocarbon and with little lamellar crystals of Baryte.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 6 × 5.4 cm = 4.02” × 2.36” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Pyrite
 

ND16G8: Group of crystals very rich in inclusions of hydrocarbon and partially covered by micro-crystals of Pyrite giving to the piece a very uncommon aspect for the samples from this mine.
Emilio Mine, 'zona intermedia', Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (09-11/2004)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.3 × 5.1 cm = 3.15” × 2.87” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 0.75” × 0.59”

Fluorite with Pyrite.
Fluorite with Pyrite.
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite. Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite.
 

GA90AK0: Fluorite crystals that are transparent, very bright and colorless, on a matrix with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (number FAE 2) whose record we will send to the buyer.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±1994)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 11.4 × 6.3 cm = 4.88” × 4.49” × 2.48”

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

Former collection of Casado Margolles

Fluorite from the Jaimina Mine

At the Jaimina mine, Caravia, Asturias, Spain, are found tetrahexaedrical Fluorite with very interesting crystallography. They are associated with Baryte and Calcite, sometimes with Chalcopyrite inclusions too.

Fluorite with Baryte

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NMT26AN9: Tetrahexahedral Fluorite crystals with very well developed crystal forms, transparent, lustrous, colorless and implanted in a group of white lamellar Baryte crystals.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.54” × 1.06” × 0.91”

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

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

NC27AN2: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with bright luster and bluish and violet tones that form geometric color zoning showing different growth phases.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 290) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 5.1 × 4.3 cm = 2.01” × 2.01” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite on Quartz
 

NK61G8: Isolated, very sharp crystals, enhancing the color zones that show different growth phases. Fluorite crystals, very bright and transparent, are on a matrix of little Quartz crystals.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4 × 2.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.57” × 0.91”

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

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

NB47AK8: Group of tetrahexahedral crystals, typical of the deposit, very transparent and lustrous and of an uniform light blue color. An excellent Spanish classic that comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 80) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2000)

Specimen size: 7 × 4 × 2.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.57” × 1.02”

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

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions  

EG89AI8: Group of Fluorite crystals forming parallel growths, with the dominant cube form beveled by the dodecahedron and the tetrahexaedron. They are transparent, very bright, and have very well defined geometric color bands, white on the nucleus of the crystal with an intermediate lilac band and a sky blue color at the surface. With white Baryte. A Spanish classic.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (±2005)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.56” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.65” × 1.14”

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions. Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions.
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz. Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz.
 

ND60H5: Crystals are cubes, transparent and having a pleasant lilac color on a microcrystalline quartz matrix, with a doubly terminated Calcite crystal forming an interpenetrating twin of two scalenohedra.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2002)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5 × 3.5 cm = 3.07” × 1.97” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

Tetrahexahedral Fluorite with Baryte
 

N13BH5: Crystals, being small, show an astonishing sharpness of tetrahexahedron, a rare single form on Fluorite because generally it is combined with some other forms. Crystals are uncolored, bright and completely clear and are scattered over an esthetic matrix of white crystals of Baryte.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1996)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 5.3 cm = 3.31” × 2.52” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

Fluorite and Baryte fluorescent long & short UV
Tetrahexahedral Fluorite with Baryte. Tetrahexahedral Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite. Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TMR87AN5: Group of tetrahexahedral crystals of Fluorite, typical of the deposit, with very sharp crystal forms, quite transparent, lustrous, and with a uniform blue sky color.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.1 × 5.7 cm = 3.43” × 2.80” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

Tetrahexahedral Fluorite with Baryte
 

NC96F0: The crystals are tetrahexahedral although this is not very obvious given the subsequent growth of the faces of the basic cube. Near the edges of the crystals there is a fine violet color zone. The crystals, for all their considerable size, are transparent enough to allow one to see the Baryte inclusions.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1996)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 11 × 7.5 cm = 5.31” × 4.33” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.38”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Tetrahexahedral Fluorite with Baryte.
Tetrahexahedral Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorite from the Llamas Quarry

Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

NQ86S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal, extraordinarily transparent, very bright and slightly violet, with very well developed dodecahedron bevels.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.51” × 0.24”

Fluorite with Quartz
 

NR6AM1: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with a cubic habit finely beveled by the dodecahedron, completely transparent, very shiny, with a pale lilac color, on a matrix of white Quartz crystals. A high quality miniature.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.59” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

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

NR16Y7: Aggregate, on matrix, of cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, bright and having the dodecahedral faces much more developed on two of the edges.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.6 × 1.9 cm = 0.71” × 0.63” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

Fluorite
 

NP26S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Dominant single cubic crystal, slightly elongated and with some other smaller crystals. It is very transparent and shows very well marked geometrical color zoning, from clear lilac to the deepest violet.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2011/2
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.1 × 1.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.43” × 0.47”

Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NMA14AN9: Single flattened Fluorite crystal with clearly dominant cube shapes and beveled by the dodecahedron. It is extraordinarily transparent, lustrous, and pale violet in color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.63” × 0.47”

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NRR46AN9: Single Fluorite crystal with clearly dominant cube shapes beveled by the dodecahedron. It is extraordinarily transparent, with good luster and pale violet color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 ×1.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.75”

Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Top
Top
Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

NC26X5: Slightly elongated single cubic crystal beveled by the dodecahedron. It is transparent and has a very well marked geometric zoning, from clear lilac to deepest violet.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.83” × 0.63”

Fluorite
 

NG36S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, on a Quartz matrix. The main crystal, very aerial, is completely transparent and has very well developed dodecahedron bevels.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.91” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

NC69S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Floater group of cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well developed dodecahedron bevels, of slight lilac color, very bright and completely transparent.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.47” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 0.75” × 0.59”

Fluorite on Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NDR26AN9: Individual crystal of transparent Fluorite, lustrous, with dominant cube faces, very finely beveled by the dodecahedron. It is blue-violet in color and sits on a Calcite matrix. Due to the transparency of the crystal, it is easily visible that the cube has grown into a Calcite scalenohedron.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

Fluorite on Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite on Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

NA63T1: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite, one of them very aerial and clearly dominant. They are beveled by the dodecahedron, are very bright, completely clear and are on Quartz matrix.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #29, August 27, 2011 edition.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.87” × 0.71”

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

Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NXL14AN9: Group of Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube shapes and beveled by the dodecahedron. They are extraordinarily transparent, shiny and pale violet in color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.75” × 0.55”

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

Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
 

ND88AI5: Group of Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces that are beveled by a very well defined dodecahedron. They are extraordinarily clear, bright and have a very uniform pale lilac color. There is a tiny bit of Quartz matrix.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.98” × 0.94”

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

Fluorite
 

NY27AL9: Group of Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces markedly beveled by the dodecahedron. Very transparent and lustrous with an intense, deep and uniform bluish violet color.
This modern Spanish classic comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 520), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.42” × 1.18” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NRR27AP7: Group of Fluorite crystals finely beveled by rhombododecahedron faces, one of them dominant, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous and of a uniform violet color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.1 × 3.3 cm = 1.42” × 1.22” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.83”

Fluorite
 

NJ96S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Very aerial group, on a Quartz matrix, of violet cubic crystals, some of them with “window” growths and very well marked color zoning with solid inclusions in the center of each crystal.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Mineralienbörse Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines 2011’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 12 of number 5/2011
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.42” × 1.42” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.

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NAB27AQ1: Very transparent Fluorite crystal of good size, finely beveled by dodecahedron forms, with a uniform lilac color and brilliant luster, with phantom growths.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2023)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 3.4 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 1.34”

Fluorite with Calcite

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NCA36AP9: Complete individual crystal of Fluorite with clearly dominant cube faces, distinctly beveled by dodecahedron faces. Transparent, with great luster, pale lilac color, in a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NAC27AQ1: Group of extraordinarily transparent Fluorite crystals, beveled by dodecahedron forms, with a uniform pale lilac color and brilliant luster.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2023)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 1.50” × 1.42” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.67”

Fluorite with Baryte
 

NK47S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Group of cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well developed dodecahedron bevels and with echeloned growths on the cube faces. They are transparent, violet and are on a Baryte matrix.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2011/2
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (02/2010)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.54” × 1.34” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.9 cm = 1.14” × 1.14”

Fluorite with Baryte.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side

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NVA96AP4: Floater cubic Fluorite crystal finely beveled by dodecahedron faces and with staggered growth on one of the edges, transparent, with good luster and a uniform lilac-blue color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 1.42”

Fluorite on Calcite

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NMR90AP3: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, with a flattened shape and beveled by dodecahedron faces which are much more developed on two of the crystal edges than on the others. They are transparent, extraordinarily lustrous and colorless, and thicker than is usual at this locality when the crystals are elongated. They grew on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals with iron oxide inclusions that give them their characteristic brownish color.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1 cm = 0.75” × 0.39”

Fluorite on Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite on Calcite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite on Calcite. Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Foto: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite. Side
Side

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NBC56AN9: Single Fluorite crystal with clearly dominant cube shapes beveled by the dodecahedron. It is transparent, with good luster and a pale violet color, and sits on a Calcite matrix.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.5 × 2.9 cm = 1.77” × 1.38” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.83”

Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz
 

NB56Z0: A group of extraordinarily flattened cubic Fluorite crystals with a very well marked bevel of the dodecahedron. They are transparent, colorless and very bright and are on a Quartz matrix with a scalenohedral Calcite crystal.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.7 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.06” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz. Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NRT66AP9: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the faces of the cube well developed and finely beveled by the dodecahedron. Transparent, with good luster and pale lilac color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.89” × 1.34” × 1.18”

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

Fluorite with Calcite

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NRB56AP9: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the faces of the cube well developed, and finely beveled by the dodecahedron. Transparent, with good luster and pale lilac color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 1.89” × 1.73” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

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

NV66AJ5: Two Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces and a very well defined dodecahedral bevel. They are very clear, bright and colorless and are on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, coquera del tubo, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.93” × 1.73” × 0.98”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Calcite
 

NB96AN2: Fluorite crystals with cube shapes clearly bevelled by the dodecahedron, very transparent and lustrous, almost colorless, with slightly violet tones, on matrix with scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 3.9 cm = 1.97” × 1.34” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite et Quartz
Fluorite with Calcite et Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite et Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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NBF96AP4: Very aerial group of Fluorite crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with great luster and a pale blue color, on a matrix of small Quartz crystals and with scalenohedrons of Calcite.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 2.01” × 1.57” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

Fluorite with Quartz

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NJH96AP4: Very aerial group of Fluorite crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with great luster and a pale blue color. On a matrix of small Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 2.09” × 1.26” × 0.98”

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

Fluorite with Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
 

NJ26AJ5: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant whose cube faces are slightly beveled by the dodecahedron. The have a very intense and deep lilac color and are on matrix with white Quartz crystals. Due to the difficulty of collecting and the fragility of the sample the back of the piece has been sawn.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 2.17” × 1.57” × 1.14”

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

Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite

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NVB56AP4: Very aerial group of Fluorite crystals beveled by rhombododecahedron faces, with a flattened habit, transparent, with great luster and a pale blue color. On a matrix of small Quartz crystals and with Calcite.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.22” × 1.30”

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

Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite. Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite.
Fluorite on Calcite
Fluorite on Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite on Calcite. Side
Side

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NFX66AP9: Fluorite crystals with the cube faces clearly dominant and with distinct beveling by rhombododecahedron faces. Transparent, shiny, pale lilac in color and on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.73” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz
 

NG99AM1: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with a cubic habit clearly beveled by the dodecahedron, completely transparent, very lustrous, with a pale lilac color, on matrix with white Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

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

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.39”

Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz. Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz.
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NBX37AP9: Fluorite crystals with the cube faces clearly dominant and with distinct beveling by rhombododecahedron faces. Transparent, shiny, pale lilac in color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals and small Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.3 × 3.1 cm = 2.32” × 1.69” × 1.22”

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

Fluorite with Calcite

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NB98AJ5: Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces and a very well defined dodecahedral bevel. They are very transparent and bright with a pale lilac color and are on a matrix with white Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6 × 3.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.36” × 1.54” × 1.22”

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

Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

NH46Z8: Aggregates of very sharp cubic crystals with very well developed dodecahedron bevels. They are transparent, extraordinarily bright, and almost colorless with slight lilac shades, on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

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

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

Fluorite with Quartz
 

ND90Z3: Group of flattened cubic Fluorite crystal beveled by the dodecahedron, completely clear, very bright, with a very clear lilac color and on a matrix of white Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5,2 × 5.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.97” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Quartz
 

XM260NX: Druse of Fluorite crystals clearly bevelled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, with a very good luster and an intense violet color. On matrix with Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6 × 4.8 cm = 2.52” × 2.36” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

Fluorite with Quartz
 

NF27AM7: Cubic crystals on matrix, one of them clearly dominant, with a much more developed dodecahedron bezel on two of the crystal edges, transparent, lustrous, colorless, on a matrix with Quartz crystals. Inside the main crystal you can see some curious “clouds” that we believe may be inclusions of colloidal Quartz.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 3.7 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 1.46” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Calcite.
 

NR87AN2: Good size Fluorite crystal with cube shapes clearly bevelled by the dodecahedron, very transparent and lustrous, violet in color with color zoning, on matrix, with small scalenohedral Calcite crystals and a much larger crystal at the base.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.68” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.47”

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NNE16AP2: From a May 2022 find in a new area, which has been called coquera del agua, in the well-known Llamas Quarry. The crystals of Fluorite on this specimen have a cubic shape beveled by the rhombododecahedron, and are extraordinarily transparent and lustrous. They are a uniform light purple in color, on matrix, with small scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, coquera del agua, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (05/2022)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.7 × 5.6 cm = 2.72” × 2.64” × 2.20”

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

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NBA27AN7: Fluorite crystals with cube shapes clearly beveled by the dodecahedron. Very transparent and lustrous and colorless, although with very slightly violet tones. On matrix, with coatings of small Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7 × 5.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.76” × 2.13” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.39”

Fluorite with Calcite
 

NA27AN2: Fluorite crystals with cube shapes clearly bevelled by the dodecahedron, very transparent and lustrous, almost colorless, with slightly violet tones, on matrix with scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.8 × 3.2  cm = 2.91” × 1.89” × 1.26”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

NB48AM1: Aggregate of Fluorite crystals with cubic habit beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, very lustrous and with a vivid lilac color. On a Quartz matrix, with scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7.3 × 5.4 cm = 2.91” × 2.87” × 2.13”

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

Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite
 

NF51AL0: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the cube faces beveled by rhombododecahedral faces, very transparent, bright, uniform lilac in color and implanted on a matrix with scalenohedral Calcite crystals. As a curiosity, the small covering of Malachite on the rear of the crystal. The specimen has been sawn on the base to reduce the matrix.


Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (07/2017)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.35” × 2.68” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite. Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

NH30AM0: Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, cubic and finely beveled by dodecahedral forms. Extraordinarily limpid, lustrous and on matrix with scalenohedral Calcite crystals. A Spanish classic. The specimen has been sawn on the back to remove excess matrix.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.4 × 4.1 cm = 3.43” × 3.31” × 1.61”

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

Fluorite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NBR73AP9: Fluorite crystals with the cube faces clearly dominant and with distinct beveling by rhombododecahedron faces. Transparent, shiny, pale lilac in color, on a matrix of white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (2022)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 8 × 5 cm = 3.46” × 3.15” × 1.97”

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

Fluorite with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EPM99AN5: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and with the cube forms clearly beveled by rhombic dodecahedra faces. They are very transparent, lustrous, and have an intense violet color. On matrix, with scalenohedral Calcite crystals. All very perfect and of high quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.2 ×  5.9 × 5.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.32” × 2.05”

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

Fluorite with Quartz
 

NE36AK4: Two cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant and with a thin bevel formed by the rhombic dodecahedron. The two crystals are translucent, uniform lilac in color and on matrix, with small white Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.3 × 6.3 × 2.5 cm = 3.66” × 2.48” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz.
 

NX71AF6: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. The cubic crystals are beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron, and one of them is clearly dominant. The crystals are very aerial, transparent, and generally of a lilac color although there is some color zoning; they are implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals. The “Coquera del Tubo”, a new collecting site at the Llamas locality, is now producing very high-quality specimens.
Llamas Quarry, coquera del tubo, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (04/2017)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.2 × 4.9 cm = 3.74” × 3.23” × 1.93”

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

Fluorite with Quartz
 

NE92AJ5: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with cube faces and a very well defined dodecahedral bevel. They are very transparent and bright, have an intense and uniform lilac color, and are on a matrix with white Quartz crystals and Calcite crystals. Due to the difficulty of collecting and the fragility of the sample, the back of the piece has been sawn.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.3 × 3.5 cm = 3.78” × 2.87” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.43”

Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Calcite
 

SV680NNT: Group of isolated Fluorite crystals, with cube faces beveled by the dodecahedron, very transparent, with good luster and a uniform lilac color, implanted on a matrix with scalenohedral crystals and small leafy aggregates of Calcite.
Llamas Quarry, coquera del agua, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (05/2022)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8 × 5.3 cm = 4.21” × 3.15” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite
 

NA50AL8: Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces and very marked dodecahedron bevels. Very transparent, shiny, colorless and on matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals with abundant inclusions and, unlike other pieces from this deposit, they exhibit small impregnations of Malachite. This specimen has a particularly unusual format for the locality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 10.9 × 8.7 × 5.5 cm = 4.29” × 3.43” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.67”

Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite. Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite.
Fluorite with Calcite and Malachite.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NT90AM1: Very aerial Fluorite crystals with a cubic habit beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, brilliant, and with an intense and vivid bluish lilac color. On matrix, with white Quartz crystals. An excellent high quality Spanish classic, of great quality.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 11.8 × 6.2 × 5.3 cm = 4.65” × 2.44” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.47”

Fluorite with Quartz
 

NB74AH7: Cube-shaped Fluorite crystals, two of them clearly dominant and isolated, beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent with phantom growths that vary from the pale lilac to the deepest color. The specimen has the matrix sawn on its rear because it was essential to do it in order to protect the crystals, very aerial, of the reduction of the matrix.
Llamas Quarry, coquera del tubo, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (04/2017)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 10.6 × 7.8 cm = 5.04” × 4.17” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.55”

Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NA72AM5: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals flattened and clearly beveled by the dodecahedron. Completely transparent, very lustrous, with an intense lilac color, on matrix with white Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 13.4 × 11.4 × 8.9 cm = 5.28” × 4.49” × 3.50”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”


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