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SM260FG
Clear, very bright, scalenohedron crystal of Calcite, with an intense yellow color, on a matrix of Sphalerite with transparent, bright and very deep mauve Fluorite crystals.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 070501
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee USA
Specimen size: 11.5 x 11.3 x 5.7 cm
Main crystal size: 11 x 7.2 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM190FC
Group of crystals rich in faces, translucent, with an intense green color on matrix, with Quartz.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 201005
Deer Trail Mine, Cottonwood Creek, Baldy Peak (Mount Baldy), Tushar Mountains, Marysvale, Mount Baldy District, Piute County, Utah USA (±2000)
Specimen size: 5.4 x 3 x 4.6 cm
Main crystal size: 2.7 x 2.4 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM180FD
Transparent Fluorite crystal, shiny and yellow with orange tones and violet zoning on the edges.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 060403
Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois USA
Specimen size: 3.7 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM250FZ
Octahedral Fluorite crystal, transparent, brilliant, of uniform green color and implanted in a group of Feldspar crystals with a transparent, brilliant Beryl (variety aquamarine) crystal with an excellent termination.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 030609
Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan
Specimen size: 4.9 x 3.6 x 3.5 cm
Main crystal size: 3.2 x 2.8 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM250FV
Group of translucent, bright, dark brown bipyramidal Scheelite crystals on a matrix of Quartz crystals with Dolomite and Chalcopyrite.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 070505
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province China (±2007)
Specimen size: 5.6 x 4.5 x 4.7 cm
Main crystal size: 0.6 x 0.5 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM250NQ
Cubic Fluorite crystals, transparent, very bright, with an intense violet color, on a Goethite matrix with Quartz. Unusual red fluorescence long & short UV.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 100605.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango Mexico
Specimen size: 6.2 x 4.7 x 3 cm
Main crystal size: 1.2 x 1 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM230FE
Group of Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, between transparent and translucent, with inclusions and small Calcite coatings.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 200502
Stoneco Quarry (Lime City Quarry), Lime City, Wood County, Ohio USA
Specimen size: 4 x 3.9 x 3.4 cm
Main crystal size: 2.4 x 2.4 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM160FB
Very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals, translucent, with a very deep violet color and on matrix. An American classic.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 900904
Pine Canyon deposit, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains District, Grant County, New Mexico USA
Specimen size: 4.8 x 3.9 x 2.4 cm
Main crystal size: 2 x 1.9 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 900904
SM180FR
Group of Fluorite crystals covered with small Quartz crystals with red Hematite inclusions.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 080303
(El Hamman Mine, El Hamman), El Hammam, Ait Mimoune, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region Morocco
Specimen size: 13 x 9.3 x 2.8 cm
Main crystal size: 6.8 x 6.5 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM180FF
Fluorite crystal, highly profiled, with stepped faces, between transparent and translucent, and with inclusions. From a deposit seldom disclosed by collectors of minerals.
Former collection Jan Buma. Number 010670
North Quarry, Dundas Quarry, West Flamborough Township, Hamilton, Ontario Canada
Specimen size: 3.5 x 3.3 x 3.7 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM260FX
Group of very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals with a very dark, almost black color (antozonite variety) from an old German deposit. A classic.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 020809
Johannesschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Schwarzach bei Nabburg, Wölsendorf West District, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern Germany
Specimen size: 7.3 x 5.5 x 6 cm
Main crystal size: 1.3 x 1.2 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM110ET
Polycrystalline growths of transparent cubic crystals of a very pale lilac color, much more intense on the edges.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 020425
Tule Mine, Melchor Múzquiz, Municipio Melchor Múzquiz, Coahuila (Coahuila de Zaragoza) Mexico
Specimen size: 7 x 5.9 x 6.2 cm
Main crystal size: 4.2 x 4.2 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM200FR
Group of cubic Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent orange, with much darker geometric zoning on the edges. Former collection of Jan Buma.
Number 890701
Valzergues Mines, Valzergues, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron France
Specimen size: 9 x 7.9 x 5.5 cm
Main crystal size: 7.5 x 6.8 cm
Former collection of Jan Buma
SM430FR
Octahedral Fluorite crystal, translucent, uniform green in color, on matrix, with Quartz.
Former collection of Jan Buma. Number 061016
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan (±2006)
Former collection of Jan Buma
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SM380TA
Groups of very sharp Creedite crystals, translucent and light violet, on matrix, quite different from what was previously known from this mine.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph 'Mexico X' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 874 in the volume 55, number 6, November-December 2024
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Rodeo, Municipio de Rodeo, Durango Mexico
Specimen size: 6.7 x 4.6 x 2 cm
Main crystal size: 0.5 x 0.3 cm
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