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.
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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, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 10.2 × 7.3 × 3.4 cm = 4.0” × 2.9” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.0” × 1.0”
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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, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 12.4 × 8.7 × 8.2 cm = 4.9” × 3.4” × 3.2”
Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.7” × 1.4”
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MY92AG9: Group of cubic crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces that have polycrystalline growths. The crystals that are transparent have an intense blue color.
The sample, a classic, is from Dr. Anton Forster, a mine 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, Coroña de Arriba-La Collada, La Collada mining area, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 13 × 10.7 × 8.8 cm = 5.1” × 4.2” × 3.5”
Main crystal size: 6.7 × 6 cm = 2.6” × 2.4”
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NH17AI8: Group of considerably flattened cubic Fluorite crystals. They are transparent and bright and have very well defined geometric color bands. The sample is from a recent find.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.9” × 1.5” × 1.4”
Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”
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NK67AI7: Group of cubic crystals beveled by the polycrystalline surfaces of the dodecahedron. They are translucent and have a violet color with geometric color zoning. On matrix with small white Quartz crystals. A Spanish classic.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (2007)
Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.4 × 4.8 cm = 3.0” × 2.5” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.5”
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NJ86AJ0: Druse, on matrix, of cubic crystals prominantly beveled by dodecahedron faces. They are transparent, very bright, and have very well defined color zones, deeper on cube faces and clearer on dodecahedron faces. The sample is from recent finds at the La Viesca area.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 8.6 × 8.4 × 5.6 cm = 3.4” × 3.3” × 2.2”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”
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NA52AJ0: Druse, on matrix, of crystals with sharp cube shape, transparent, very bright, colorless and with phantom growths. The edges are outlined by fine alignments of small Pyrite crystals. The sample, found in recent workings at the La Viesca area, is very different from the usual at this big mine.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (2015)
Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.9 × 7.8 cm = 5.0” × 3.9” × 3.1”
Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.5” × 1.3”
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From when mining ended at La Collada until 1998 almost no new specimens were found in the area. That said there were a few finds, such as the large April 1994 pocket called 'Geoda del Reguerín' which was found near the La Viesca area. The pocket was filled with water, but from beneath the water a large number of specimens emerged, with light sky blue crystals of Fluorite that have pale violet phantoms. While the crystals are not that large they are very transparent, and almost always on Quartz matrix. We bought the majority of this find and have some of them below.
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NF86M5: Typical sample from the famous El Reguerín pocket, characterized by groups of cubic crystals of beautiful pale blue color with thin geometric violet zoning. The crystals are partially covered by small Quartz crystals, also partially covering the matrix.
La Viesca Mine, Reguerín pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (04/1994)
Specimen size: 12 × 9.2 × 7.3 cm = 4.7” × 3.6” × 2.9”
Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.5 cm = 1.4” × 1.4”
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In Spain there are two classic localities for quality Fluorite: Berbes and La Collada. At the latter, extraordinary specimens were found when the mine was worked in the 60s and 70s. Their color varied between blue and green, phantoms were frequently present, and the edges of the crystals were often modified. Between 1998 and 1999 with the aid of heavy equipment, they managed to remove the spoil from an area of the La Collada mine and find a number of reasonably sized pockets with good crystals which are violet or deep blue, and often have phantoms. From these finds we were able to present the following specimens.
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N27AL5: Cubic Fluorite crystals with polysynthetic growths that form tiled structures on the cube faces. We would like to emphasize the geometric color zoning, very intense, with colors that vary from the sky blue, a little greenish, in the external zones to the deepest violet, with a medium lilac zone, and bluish gray in the crystal core.
La Viesca Mine, Tiro pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (11/1998)
Specimen size: 9.5 × 8 × 7.3 cm = 3.7” × 3.1” × 2.9”
Main crystal size: 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.2” × 1.5”
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NE87S5: Aggregate of beveled cubic crystals of good size. They are transparent, deep violet and with geometrical zoning of their color. The sample is from the site known as the Geoda Destartalada (Destartalada pocket), one of the first found after the reopening of the mining works at the La Viesca-La Collada area, in 1999.
La Viesca Mine, Destartalada pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (03/1999)
Specimen size: 13.4 × 9 × 7.7 cm = 5.3” × 3.5” × 3.0”
Main crystal size: 7.7 × 4 cm = 3.0” × 1.6”
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During December of 2001 in the La Collada area of Asturias, Spain, a series of pockets of Fluorite was found. Physically they was found very close to another old find in the "El Reguerín" area, but luckily the color of these specimens is better than those from the previous find. More intense, with a spectacular color change from sky blue to mauve depending the kind of light. Their luster is better too.
As is quite common in the La Collada area these specimens show naturally modified corners.
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NV66T0: Group of cubic crystals with echeloned growths on some of their faces and very well defined geometrical color zoning, deep violet in the inner crystal and more bluish on the external areas. The sample is from material compiled for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, regarding the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds.
La Viesca Mine, Reguerín II pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (12/2001)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.8”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”
Former Fernando Brugos
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ND10AD3: Druse, on a Quartz matrix, of cubic Fluorite crystals with polycrystalline growths on their faces. They are transparent, bright and have a violet-blue color.
La Viesca Mine, Reguerín II pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (12/2001)
Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.2 × 2.5 cm = 3.3” × 2.0” × 1.0”
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
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MR96S5: Beveled cubic crystals of Fluorite. They are violet with bluish shades and a very well marked geometrical zoning of the color and are on matrix with a perimorphic growth of Quartz that partially replaced the forms of a pre-existing crystal of Calcite, now disappeared.
La Viesca Mine, Reguerín II pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (12/2001)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.6 × 3.8 cm = 3.8” × 3.0” × 1.5”
Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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At the end of the month of May 2003 in the La Collada mining area they found a superb pocket the size of at least two cars and full of crystallized specimens. This pocket was named "Tres de La Collada" for the name of the area where it was found and it supplied more than 6000 specimens. That seems like a lot of specimens, but as is usual in this kind of find, only a few of this huge total had "collector quality". Well connected with all main Spanish finds, we went there immediately and we made a significant selection of our favorite specimens.
In some cases (the bluer ones) the shape is very similar to the famous old classic La Collada Fluorite, with naturally modified corners. In other cases (the more violet ones) they are completely different from the others found at this locality in the past. The white Quartz matrix in a few specimens completes the fame of the find.
As usual with La Collada classic specimens, the surface of the crystals is not that brilliant, but rather slightly glazed. This is due to a second generation of globular Fluorite (by the way very similar to the new Indian ones) partially covering the surface of the crystals. When viewed with a magnifying glass it is spectacular as it looks like sea waves.
Please note that all the specimens are shown with two kind of lights: fluorescent or day light and bulb light. The color depends so much on which of these two light sources is used that we preferred to display them in the two different lights.
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EF53AI8: Druse of Fluorite crystals neatly cube shaped, transparent, very bright and very well defined geometric color zoning, with color bands varying from sky blue to purple and to lilac. Partially coated by small Quartz crystals.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Viesca Mine, Tres de la Collada pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (01/2004)
Specimen size: 14.8 × 9.7 × 5.4 cm = 5.8”
Main crystal size: 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.2” × 1.1”
Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
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If you want to know more about "Coquera de la Calcita" Fluorite please follow this link
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NV36W5: Aggregate of cubic crystals beveled by dodecahedron faces. They have a very deep color that masks their transparency and the geometrical color zoning, visible under a strong light.
La Viesca Mine, Coquera de la Calcita pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (01/2004)
Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.3 × 3.2 cm = 2.7” × 2.5” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”
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If you want to know more about "La Falla" Fluorite please follow this link
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NL68T8: Group of cubic crystals with the edges widely beveled by echeloned growths. They have a clear lilac color and are transparent, with geometrical color zoning showing a deeper internal color and they are on a matrix of crystallized Quartz. The sample is from material collected for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds have been recorded.
La Viesca Mine, La Falla pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (08/2004)
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.2 × 4 cm = 4.1” × 2.8” × 1.6”
Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 1.8” × 1.5”
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NZ47T0: Group of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the faces of the cube. They are bright, transparent and have clear lilac color. On matrix, with Quartz crystals. The sample is from material compiled for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, regarding the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds.
La Viesca Mine, La Falla pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (2004)
Specimen size: 13.2 × 9.9 × 5.4 cm = 5.2” × 3.9” × 2.1”
Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”
Former Fernando Brugos
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If you want to know more about "Geoda de Las Calcitas" Fluorite please follow this link
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NM29T8: Big cubic crystal beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent and with geometrical color zoning, with color varying between intense blue, lilac and violet. The sample is from material collected for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds have been recorded.
La Viesca Mine, Las Calcitas pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (02-05/2007)
Specimen size: 10 × 8.4 × 5.8 cm = 3.9” × 3.3” × 2.3”
Main crystal size: 8.6 × 8.1 cm = 3.4” × 3.2”
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If you want to know more about "Coquera La Negrina" Fluorite please follow this link
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NK30Z2: Group, on matrix, of transparent, very bright crystals with a very deep and intense color and showing cube faces beveled by the dodecahedron.
La Viesca Mine, La Negrina pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (03-04/2006)
Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.6 × 3.4 cm = 4.6” × 3.8” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”
Former Fernando Brugos
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NF47AC8: Irregular aggregate of crystals with smooth cube faces modified by polycrystalline dodecahedron growths. The crystals are transparent, have very well defined geometrical color zones and a very intense violet color. They are on a rocky matrix partially coated by small Quartz crystals.
La Viesca Mine, La Negrina pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (03-04/2006)
Specimen size: 12 × 8.9 × 3.6 cm = 4.7” × 3.5” × 1.4”
Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”
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NQ47AC8: Irregular aggregate of cubic crystals clearly beveled by the dodecahedron. They are translucent and have a surprising color change from violet to sky blue when backlit.
La Viesca Mine, La Negrina pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (03-04/2006)
Specimen size: 14.3 × 12.3 × 7.7 cm = 5.6” × 4.8” × 3.0”
Main crystal size: 6.5 × 5.2 cm = 2.6” × 2.0”
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NA96AE1: Druse of cubic crystals on matrix. The crystals, beveled by dodecahedral faces, are transparent, very bright, have a very intense violet color with geometric color zoning which is very well defined with deeper shades in the center. We note the quality and the condition of the sample, uncommon in such large pieces. One of the best samples from the cavity.
La Viesca Mine, La Negrina pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (03-04/2006)
Specimen size: 23.5 × 17.5 × 6.5 cm = 9.3” × 6.9” × 2.6”
Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”
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If you want to know more about "El Furaco" Fluorite please follow this link
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NM87T8: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite beveled by the dodecahedron. They are very bright, with a very deep color and good transparency that show a geometrical color zoning parallel to the edges. With very small bright crystals of Chalcopyrite peppering the Fluorite faces and on a matrix of crystallized Calcite. The sample is from material collected for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds have been recorded.
La Viesca Mine, El Furaco pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (20/08/2009)
Specimen size: 8.9 × 6.8 × 5.7 cm = 3.5” × 2.7” × 2.2”
Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”
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If you want to know more about "Galería 49" Fluorite please follow this link
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NX37T0: Group of transparent cubic crystals. They are very bright, of very intense sky blue color and are with small crystals of Quartz. The sample is from material compiled for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, regarding the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds.
La Viesca Mine, Galería 49 pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (09-12/2009)
Specimen size: 6.9 × 6 × 4.7 cm = 2.7” × 2.4” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”
Former Fernando Brugos
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NP89Z2: Aggregate of transparent, very bright crystals with a very intense sky blue color. They are formed by the faces of the cube beveled by the dodecahedron. They are on matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
La Viesca Mine, Galería 49 pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (09-12/2009)
Specimen size: 15.5 × 10.2 × 6 cm = 6.1” × 4.0” × 2.4”
Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”
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If you want to know more about "Geoda de Las Monjas" Fluorite please follow this link
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ND86T0: Very aerial group of cubic crystals beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. They are transparent, of deep violet color and have geometrical color zoning. On matrix and partially coated by very small crystals of Chalcopyrite. The sample is from material compiled for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, regarding the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds.
La Viesca Mine, Las Monjas pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (05/2010)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.7 × 4.4 cm = 2.7” × 2.2” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”
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NF76T0: Group of cubic crystals beveled by the dodecahedron. They are transparent, have deep violet color, geometrical color zoning and very small crystals of Chalcopyrite spread on their faces. The sample is from material compiled for years by Fernando Brugos, former owner of the La Viesca claim. This material has been accurately documented, regarding the different pockets as well as the dates of the finds.
La Viesca Mine, Las Monjas pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (05/2010)
Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.9 × 3.2 cm = 3.3” × 2.7” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”
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NB37W5: Irregular aggregate of cubic crystals with a very well marked rough bevel on the edges. They have a very intense sky blue color with irregular violet color zones and abundant inclusions of small crystals of Chalcopyrite.
La Viesca Mine, Las Monjas pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (05/2010)
Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.5 × 5.3 cm = 4.1” × 3.0” × 2.1”
Main crystal size: 7.3 × 6.3 cm = 2.9” × 2.5”
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NC98Z2: Aggregate of translucent crystals with a very deep color, with violet shades on the cube faces and blue on the dodecahedral bevels. The sample is partially coated by a “cap” of small Quartz crystals.
La Viesca Mine, Las Monjas pocket, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (05/2010)
Specimen size: 14.5 × 10.2 × 4.2 cm = 5.7” × 4.0” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 5 × 4.3 cm = 2.0” × 1.7”
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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.
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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, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 11.8 × 9.7 × 7 cm = 4.6” × 3.8” × 2.8”
Main crystal size: 4 × 4 cm = 1.6” × 1.6”
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NR6P1: Cubic crystals with polysynthetic growths on some of their faces and geometric color zoning, deeper at the center of the crystal. On the back side the group is partially well crystallized and it is partially recrystallized by a contact.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.5” × 1.5” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”
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NE6AI8: Group of transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals that have a very intense and uniform color and are on a Quartz matrix. It is from a recent find at a place where currently there are great difficulties to collect but where sporadically it is possible to find samples with great aesthetics.
Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (05-06/2018)
Specimen size: 6 × 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 2.4” × 1.1” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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N61XXAC9: Aggregate of very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals, transparent and bright, with a sky blue color and on a matrix of white Baryte crystals partially coated by Quartz that, in some areas, also partially coats the Fluorite crystals.
La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (11/1993)
Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.5 × 6.6 cm = 3.9” × 3.0” × 2.6”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.5” × 0.3”
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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.
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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, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (03/1993)
Specimen size: 8 × 5.8 × 3.8 cm = 3.1” × 2.3” × 1.5”
Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”
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Fluorite with Quartz |
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NA13E0: It has small but very transparent crystals of Fluorite that have a very deep color. The contrast with the white quartz matrix, which looks like snow, makes it esthetic.
Coquera del Liso, La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Valdelmar, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (1993)
Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm = 4.1” × 3.3” × 2.2”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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| Fluorite with Quartz |
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NF98Z0: Cubic Fluorite crystal finely beveled by the dodecahedron. It is extraordinarily clear and bright and implanted on a matrix with small Quartz crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.7 × 4 cm = 1.9” × 1.9” × 1.6”
Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
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Fluorite with Calcite |
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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, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 6 × 6 × 4.1 cm = 2.4” × 2.4” × 1.6”
Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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| Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite |
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NT89AE7: Elongated cubic Fluorite crystal that is bright, extraordinarily clear, with a pale lilac color and is on a matrix of Quartz crystals with Calcite coatings.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.2 × 4.8 cm = 2.6” × 2.4” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”
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Fluorite with Quartz |
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NK89AH7: Single cube-shaped Fluorite crystal, on a Quartz matrix, beveled by the dodecahedron. It is transparent with “phantom” growths that vary from the pale lilac to the deepest violet.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (07/2017)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.9 × 2.3 cm = 2.8” × 1.5” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”
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| Fluorite with Quartz |
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NV68AF0: Group of three crystals with the clearly dominant cube faces, beveled by the dodecahedron. They are extremely clear and bright, with a pale lilac color and on a Quartz matrix coated by small crystals of the same mineral.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 7.3 × 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 2.9” × 1.7” × 1.4”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”
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Fluorite with Calcite |
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NG97AG9: Single cubic crystal clearly beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. It has very well defined faces and edges, is transparent with a pale lilac color and is implanted on a matrix with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. This matrix has a partially sawn back to avoid it being broken while it was trimmed.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain
Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.8 × 3.2 cm = 3.0” × 2.3” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”
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| Fluorite with Quartz |
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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, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (04/2017)
Specimen size: 12.8 × 10.6 × 7.8 cm = 5.0” × 4.2” × 3.1”
Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”
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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.
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Fluorite with Baryte and inclusions |
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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, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (±2005)
Specimen size: 7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.6” × 1.8”
Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.7” × 1.1”
Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
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| Fluorite with Baryte and Chalcopyrite inclusions |
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N36ZLAD3: Aggregate of Fluorite crystals with the cube and the tetrahexahedron faces. They are colorless, transparent and bright and are partially coated by laminar white Baryte crystals. They are also rich with inclusions of Chalcopyrite.
Jaimina Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Trechorio, Carrales, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (1995)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.7 × 5.2 cm = 3.8” × 3.0” × 2.0”
Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”
Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
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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.
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Fluorite with Calcite |
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NH12AD3: Aggregates of very sharp cubic crystals, extraordinarily bright and transparent, as usual for the best Emilio Mine fluorites, with a sky blue color and implanted on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (07/2014)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.1” × 1.7” × 1.0”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
Minor fluorescence short UV
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| Fluorite with hydrocarbide inclusions, Baryte and Calcite |
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NV11AB4: Colorless, transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals on matrix, with a lot of small white laminar Baryte crystals. Inclusions in Fluorite crystals are a hydrocarbide of organic origin. The sample is from a classic Asturian mine from which it is increasingly difficult to obtain pieces of good quality.
Emilio Mine, "Zona Intermedia", Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (09-11/2004)
Specimen size: 11.7 × 10.5 × 8 cm = 4.6” × 4.1” × 3.1”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”
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For many years under the general locality 'Villabona' many nice lemon yellow Fluorites have appeared on the market, often associated with saddle Dolomite and often quite large Calcite which has interesting crystal form and is white to yellow in color. Less frequently they were associated with blue, white and once in a while yellow Baryte. Pyrite and Marcasite completed the paragenesis.
As so often happens, production has dropped over the last few years and, while the mine is still active, almost no new material has been found.
If you want to know more about Moscona Mine please follow this link
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Calcite with Fluorite and Baryte |
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NR27AI8: Very aerial Calcite crystal that is very rich in faces, translucent and partially coated by small white laminar Baryte crystals. Perched on a druse of yellow and very bright Fluorite crystals.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (2017)
Specimen size: 12.4 × 9.4 × 4.8 cm = 4.9” × 3.7” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3.8 cm = 1.7” × 1.5”
Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite fluorescent long & short UV
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NY37D9: It is a floater, with good color and brilliance in the Fluorite, and also with small crystals of Pyrite peppering the whole of the specimen. Elegant.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (1995)
Specimen size: 13 × 13 × 4.5 cm = 5.1” × 5.1” × 1.8”
Fluorite extremely fluorescent long & short UV
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On the 24 December 1999, before its decline, the Moscona Mine, Solís, Asturias, produced, at the 50 meters level, an extremely unusual pocket of two generations of Fluorite. The second generation is bluish Fluorites on a first generation of yellow Fluorite fluorescent on long & short UV, and everything is associated with Calcite, lemon-yellow Baryte and Dolomite.
After all these years without any further similar material being found, we offer some specimens of that unusual Spanish find.
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Fluorite with Calcite, Baryte and Dolomite |
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N48ZS0: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite in which coincide two very different colors, violet and yellow, that correspond to two phases of crystallization. They are partially coated by complex crystals of Calcite, tabular crystals of yellow Baryte and Dolomite. Mined at 50m down.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (24/12/1999)
Specimen size: 12.7 × 8.8 × 8.7 cm = 5.0” × 3.5” × 3.4”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”
Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
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| Fluorite with Calcite and Baryte |
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N46KS0: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite in which coincide two very different colors, violet and yellow, that correspond to two phases of crystallization. They are bordered by a group of white crystals of Calcite which, in turn, are partially covered by tabular crystals of yellow Baryte. Mined at 50m down.
Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Asturias, Principality of Asturias Spain (24/12/1999)
Specimen size: 13.4 × 6.7 × 4.9 cm = 5.3” × 2.6” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
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