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9MR96S5: Beveled cubic crystals of Fluorite, cube and dodecahedron combination. 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, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (12/2001)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.6 × 3.8 cm = 3.82”
Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55”
Photos: Joaquim Callén
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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