Reference Specimens
Spanish Fluorite

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

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




OTHER LOCALITIES


El Papiol Fluorite

Octahedral Fluorite on granite from Berta quarry. This octahedral Fluorite is extremely fluorescent with ultraviolet light. It is considered to be a classic mineral from Spain. Lots of local collectors learnt mineralogy in this small quarry close to Barcelona.

Fluorite (octahedral) with Calcite
Fluorite (octahedral) with Calcite. Fluorite (octahedral) with Calcite.
 

NV56AM5: Calcite matrix with a group of octahedral Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and with a very intense and deep green color. A classic of Spanish mineralogy. This piece is from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 4 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 1.30” × 0.79”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Pedro Hernández
Octahedral Fluorite
 

R57FI0: Crystals from this site grew as very close groups in which it is difficult to define the crystalline forms. On this specimen, however, there is an isolated sharp octahedron, very bright and of extraordinary emerald green color.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 1.65” × 1.65” × 1.18”

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

Intense fluorescence long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite.
Octahedral Fluorite.
Fluorite (octahedral) with Calcite and Quartz
Fluorite (octahedral) with Calcite and Quartz. Fluorite (octahedral) with Calcite and Quartz.
 

NX16AM5: Group of octahedral crystals of Fluorite, transparent and with a very intense and deep green color. On matrix with Quartz and Calcite. A classic of Spanish mineralogy. The specimen is from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.50” × 0.87”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Pedro Hernández
Fluorite (octahedral)
 

NMB87XXX: Groups of octahedral Fluorite crystals on granodiorite matrix, some of them isolated, very sharp, transparent, lustrous and with a very uniform and delicate apple-green color.
A Spanish classic from a deposit now closed, from which quality specimens are obtained only from old collections, as in this case.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.1 × 4.5 cm = 2.24” × 2.01” × 1.77”

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

Former collection of Santiago Ugido

Octahedral Fluorite
Octahedral Fluorite.
 

NH60Z1: Group of very sharp and translucent octahedral crystals, with a very intense green color, that partially coat a granite matrix. A Spanish classic from a currently closed locality that only sporadically produces samples of this quality. This piece is from an old collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6.1 × 4.3 cm = 2.44” × 2.40” × 1.69”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite (octahedral)
 

ND16AM5: Groups of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals on matrix. Transparent, with good luster and an intense green color but with a slightly different tone from the usual classic grass-green.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.56” × 1.65” × 1.14”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite (octahedral). Fluorite (octahedral).
Octahedral Fluorite
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
 

NG60AC5: Octahedral crystals with small cube faces on the vertices. They are translucent, have a uniform green color and are implanted on a granitic rock matrix with small white Quartz crystals.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1975-1976)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6 × 4.2 cm = 2.56” × 2.36” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NBD26AP5: Group of sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals, translucent and with an intense green color, on matrix with coatings of Quartz microcrystals. A Catalan classic that comes from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.77” × 1.06”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Pedro Hernández
Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz.
Fluorite (octahedral)
Fluorite (octahedral). Fluorite (octahedral).
 

NE13AM5: Groups of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals on matrix. Transparent, with good luster and an intense green color but with a slightly different tone from the usual classic grass-green.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.83” × 1.85” × 1.54”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite
 

NB14Y3: Isolated octahedral crystals with intense green color and polycrystalline growths on their faces, implanted on a granite matrix. A Spanish classic from a currently closed locality that only sporadically produces samples of this quality. This piece is from an old collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1975-1976)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.3 × 4.1 cm = 3.15” × 2.48” × 1.61”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
Octahedral Fluorite
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
 

MT47AK4: Druse on matrix of sharp octahedral crystals of Fluorite, translucent and of a uniform green color that is more intense than usual at the locality. A Catalan classic of great quality.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.27” × 2.13” × 2.13”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite
 

NA36Y3: Group of very sharp, translucent, octahedral crystals with a very intense green color and partially coating a granite matrix. A Spanish classic from a currently closed locality that only sporadically produces samples of this quality. This piece is from an old collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1975-1976)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.5 × 4.3 cm = 3.43” × 2.95” × 1.69”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
Octahedral Fluorite
Octahedral Fluorite.
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
 

NC37Y3: Group of sharp, translucent, octahedral crystals with a very intense green color, partially coating a granite matrix. A Spanish classic from a currently closed locality that only sporadically produces samples of this quality. This piece is from an old collection.

The Berta Quarry is a former open-pit workings located on Can Domènech Hill, within the southern sector of the Roques Blanques Mountains, an area shared by the municipalities of Sant Cugat del Vallès and El Papiol, on the boundary between Vallès Occidental and Baix Llobregat Counties, in Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain.
Geologically, the area belongs to the eastern end of the Catalan Coastal Range, characterized by metamorphosed Paleozoic rocks (schists, gneisses and calc-silicate horizons) adjacent to Hercynian granite intrusions. These contact metamorphic zones produced distinctive assemblages including octahedral fluorites, which made the quarry well known among mineral collectors.

Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1975-1976)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 10 × 7 cm = 4.80” × 3.94” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite
 

NA96Y3: Group of very sharp, translucent, octahedral crystals with a very intense green color and partially coating a granite matrix. A Spanish classic from a currently closed locality that only sporadically produces samples of this quality. This piece is from an old collection.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1975-1976)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 8 × 7.2 cm = 4.92” × 3.15” × 2.83”

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

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite.
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
Fluorite (octahedral)
Fluorite (octahedral).
 

NH56AM6: Group of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals, more isolated than usual in specimens from the locality, translucent, with an intense green color, on a granite matrix. A Spanish classic, from a locality currently closed and from which quality specimens are only obtainable from old collections.
Berta Quarry, Can Domènech Hill, Roques Blanques Mountains, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Comarca Vallès Occidental / Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 13.8 × 6.5 × 7.4 cm = 5.43” × 2.56” × 2.91”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Fluorite
 

LM36AF0: Druse of transparent cubic crystals with a pale yellow color, very bright, with unidentified green inclusions in some crystals and on a rocky matrix.
The sample is from the Carles Millán collection whose computer card we’ll send to the buyer.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (21/03/1971)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 3.07” × 1.89” × 1.14”

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

Former collection of Carles Millan

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

NF16T1: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite whose faces and edges are very well defined. Transparent, with a pale green –yellow color, they are partially coated by scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. The Fluorite has an apparent phantom growth in the nucleus, due, surely, to a previous phase of recrystallization of the same Fluorite, a growth history that is clearly visible on the back.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (02/2011)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.7 × 2.5 cm = 3.39” × 2.24” × 0.98”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Pyrite inclusions
 

MG76W4: Group of very sharp cubic crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent and yellow with a slightly green color. The sample, with more transparency near the edges than in the central zones, is very representative of this classic Catalan locality.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 8.9 × 7.5 × 3.8 cm = 3.50” × 2.95” × 1.50”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Pyrite inclusions. Fluorite with Pyrite inclusions.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite
 

SV2150MCX: Group of sharp cubic Fluorite crystals, translucent, with good luster and yellow color, with more intense tones towards the interior of the crystals. The specimen shows areas on the edges that are more transparent than the central areas of the faces, and is very representative of this classic Catalan locality.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (08/1979)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.8 × 5.4 cm = 3.62” × 2.28” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2 cm = 1.42” × 0.79”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite with Calcite
 

TG99AM6: Druse of Fluorite crystals between translucent and transparent, shiny, with a pale green color with some small areas of a very intense green color. With coatings of small Calcite crystals, complex and very well defined, with the dominant forms of a scalenohedron. This specimen is of high quality and comes from the Jaume Vilalta collection (number 0176), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1997)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.4 × 6.8 cm = 3.82” × 3.70” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.94”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

PV90AI8: Group of very sharp cubes of Fluorite, one of them very large and clearly dominant. They are translucent, bright and have a yellow color with slightly greenish shades. The sample, whose edges are more transparent than the central area, is very representative of this classic Catalan locality and its crystal size is greater than usual.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (07/1982)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 9.9 × 8.6 cm = 4.09” × 3.90” × 3.39”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 5.5 cm = 2.28” × 2.17”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Rodolfo Pigrau
Fluorite with Calcite
 

NC66T1: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite whose faces and edges are very well defined. Transparent, with a pale green –yellow color, they are partially coated by scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. The Fluorite has an apparent phantom growth in the nucleus, due, surely, to a previous phase of recrystallization of the same Fluorite, a growth history that is clearly visible on the back.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (02/2011)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 6.8 × 2.6 cm = 4.21” × 2.68” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.79”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite  

NR47AL3: Group of Fluorite crystals with cubic morphology, bright, translucent light green, and partially covered with small white scalenohedral Calcite crystals that are concentrated mainly on the edges. The specimen comes from the Jaume Vilalta collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1995)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.6 × 4.8 cm = 4.33” × 3.39” × 1.89”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Jaume Vilalta
Fluorite with Calcite
 

MF89AL9: Aggregate of cubic Fluorite crystals between transparent and translucent, lustrous, with a light green color with yellowish tones. Covered by complex Calcite crystals with the dominant forms of the scalenohedron. A classic of Spanish mineralogy, with more luster than usual in specimens from this deposit.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain

Specimen size: 13.2 × 11.8 × 6.7 cm = 5.20” × 4.65” × 2.64”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

NQ26T1: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with pale green-yellow color and almost all coated by scalenohedral crystals of Calcite that also coat the back of the piece. The Fluorite crystals have an apparent phantom growth in their nucleus, due, surely, to a previous phase of recrystallization of the same Fluorite, a growth history that is clearly visible on the back.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (09/2006)

Specimen size: 14.4 × 14.2 × 4.6 cm = 5.67” × 5.59” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

PTX26AP5: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals of good size, between transparent and translucent, soft green in color with yellowish tones and reflections, lustrous, with coatings of small white Calcite crystals. This specimen, of exceptional quality for the locality, also has a curiosity: inclusions of small very intense green 'spots'. It has been said that these spectacular green spots could be due to traces of ions, but in this case color centers seem to be a more consistent explanation, considering the characteristics of the mine.
Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (09/1979)

Specimen size: 15.3 × 13.3 × 11.5 cm = 6.02” × 5.24” × 4.53”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.30” × 1.02”

Fluorescent long & short UV

Former collection of Jordi Povill
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Calcite. Photo: Joaquim Callén
Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite
Fluorite.
Fluorite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Fluorite
 

SV540NBX: Large group of globular aggregates of Fluorite crystals, with the particularity that they are formed by octahedrons if we observe them with a loupe. Apple-green and lustrous, on a porphyritic rock matrix, it comes from a significant discovery made in 2014 very close to the urban center of Barcelona, specifically in the neighboring community of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. This piece, due to its size and color, is among the best of that find.
Can Franquesa, Castellar Hill (Marina Range), Singuerlín, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Comarca Barcelonès, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (2014)

Specimen size: 22.5 × 16.4 × 3.9 cm = 8.86” × 6.46” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

Fluorite
 

TG96AJ5: Sharp cubic crystals on matrix, clear, very bright and colorless. The Fluorite from Gualba tends to be in small crystals and is currently rare.
Xauxa Quarry (Aymar Quarry), Turó de Xauxa / Sot de les Pedreres, Gualba, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1980)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.8 × 4.1 cm = 4.25” × 3.07” × 1.61”

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

Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.
Fluorite.
 

M61FPI0: The locality is very uncommon for Fluorite. The crystals from this quarry tend to be small but, as in this case, colorless, bright and completely transparent.
Xauxa Quarry (Aymar Quarry), Turó de Xauxa / Sot de les Pedreres, Gualba, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya  Spain (1975)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 7.7 × 4.5 cm = 4.61” × 3.03” × 1.77”

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

Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NPA26AO0: Two sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals with small and very well defined cubic polycrystalline recrystallizations, translucent, with good luster and a uniform green color and covered by small water-clear Quartz crystals. Of good quality and size for a deposit from which it is not common to see specimens like this.
Gloria Mine, La Hortezuela, Hornachuelos-Espiel, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 3.6 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 1.65” × 1.26”

Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite (octahedral) with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz (variety chalcedony)
Fluorite with Quartz (variety chalcedony). Fluorite with Quartz (variety chalcedony).

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

JBR14AP8: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, with good luster and an intense and uniform yellow color, on a Quartz matrix (chalcedony variety). The specimen is from a prolific locality but one from which such showy specimens are not usually seen.
It comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Gloria Mine, La Hortezuela, Hornachuelos-Espiel, Comarca Valle Medio del Guadalquivir, Córdoba, Andalusia  Spain

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.8 × 2 cm = 2.20” × 1.89” × 0.79”

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

Fluorescent short UV

Former collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly
Fluorite with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NTV64AO0: Fluorite crystals of cubic shape with finely polycrystalline faces, and one of them aerial and clearly dominant, between translucent and transparent, with an intense lilac color, with geometric color zoning, on matrix, and partially covered by small crystals of Quartz.
The specimen, of excellent quality for the locality, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 580) whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Roque Mine, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 1.02”

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

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NPQ13AN8: Floater Fluorite crystal of cubic habit, with finely polycrystalline surfaces, between translucent and transparent, with an intense and uniform lilac color, with cavities left by dissolved crystals, possibly of Calcite, on matrix and partially covered by microcrystals of Dolomite.
The specimen, of excellent quality for the locality, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 579), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Roque Mine, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.18” × 1.02”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Dolomite
 

NC56AL0: Fluorite crystal of cubic habit with finely polycrystalline faces, subtransparent, intense and uniform lilac color, on matrix, and partially covered by Dolomite microcrystals. The sample, of excellent quality for the locality, comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (No. 588), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Roque Mine, Alumbres, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (2018)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.65” × 1.61” × 0.98”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

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

NY46AL0: Fluorite crystal with polycrystalline faces, between translucent and transparent, intense and uniform lilac color, with geometric color zoning, denser at the edges. The specimen, of very good quality for the locality, comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (No. 39), whose label we will send to the buyer.
San Camilo Mine, Vista Alegre, Cartagena, Comarca Campo de Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Murcia)  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.13” × 1.73” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 1.42” × 1.38”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Miguel David Martínez
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite
 

NK11X9: Cubic Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and transparent and showing a very well marked geometric color zoning. They are on matrix, with Baryte and small scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. Samples of such quality are rare at this mine.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2003)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 0.79”

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

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

MB66M9: From an uncommon locality. Group of cubic crystals slightly beveled by the faces of a dodecahedron. They have excellent transparency, luster and color, lilac with mauve tones. The Fluorite group is partially surrounded by small scalenohedral, very acute and doubly terminated, crystals of Calcite.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.8 × 3 cm = 2.60” × 2.28” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

Fluorite & Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite and Calcite
 

NG14AJ8: Transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals that have a very intense violet color with a very well defined color zoning that is darker on the edges and in the centers of some of the crystals. They are on matrix with coal inclusions and partially coated by small white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. These Fluorites should be considered a rarity because they are from uncommon finds.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.64” × 2.09” × 1.34”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV. Calcite fluorescent short UV.
Fluorite and Calcite. Fluorite and Calcite.
Fluorite and Calcite
Fluorite and Calcite. Fluorite and Calcite.
 

NJ59AJ8: Transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals that have a very intense violet color with very well defined color zoning that is darker on the edges and in the centers of some of the crystals. They are on matrix with coal inclusions and partially coated by Calcite and white thin laminar Baryte crystals. These Fluorites should be considered a rarity because they are from uncommon finds.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 8 × 6 × 2.7 cm = 3.15” × 2.36” × 1.06”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV. Calcite fluorescent short UV.
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite
 

NR14AJ5: Transparent and very bright Fluorite crystals that have a very intense violet color with a very well defined color zoning that is darker on the edges and in the centers of the crystals. They are on matrix, partially coated by Calcite and white thin laminar Baryte crystals. These Fluorites should be considered a rarity because they are from occasional finds.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2011)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6 × 2.4 cm = 3.39” × 2.36” × 0.94”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV. Calcite fluorescent short UV.
Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite. Fluorite with Baryte and Calcite.
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Fluorite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

JYZ27AP8: Druse of Fluorite crystals with dominant cube shapes and finely polycrystalline surfaces, transparent, with very good luster and an intense lilac color with bluish tones, in matrix with Baryte.
The specimen, of the best possible size for what is known from the locality, comes from the collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.1 × 4.5 cm = 4.06” × 3.19” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.91”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Andrés Jiménez Shelly
Fluorite
 

MA96M9: From an uncommon locality. Group of cubic crystals slightly beveled by the faces of a dodecahedron. They have excellent transparency, luster and color, lilac with mauve tones.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2008)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 8.2 × 2.2 cm = 4.29” × 3.23” × 0.87”

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

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

NT96AJ5: Cubic Fluorite crystals slightly beveled by the dodecahedron. They are transparent, very bright and have a very intense violet color with a very well defined geometric zoning that is darker on the edges and in the centers of the crystals. They are on matrix and are partially coated by white laminar Baryte crystals. These Fluorites should be considered a rarity because they are from occasional finds.
Yanci Quarry, Unanue, Igantzi (Yanci), Comarca Cinco Villas, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarre)  Spain (2011)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 8.6 × 4.2 cm = 4.57” × 3.39” × 1.65”

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

Minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Calcite and Pyrite
 

NJ64S5: Aggregate on matrix of cubic crystals of Fluorite. They are vivid yellow, transparent and bright and bordered by a growth of white rhombohedral crystals of Calcite. The sample corresponds to the first findings at the Villabona mine (not to be confused with the Moscona mine), of which few pieces remain nowadays.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.4 × 4.3 cm = 3.74” × 3.31” × 1.69”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Calcite and Pyrite. Fluorite with Calcite and Pyrite.
Fluorite with Pyrite and Calcite
Fluorite with Pyrite and Calcite. Fluorite with Pyrite and Calcite.
Fluorite with Pyrite and Calcite.
 

NA27Z1: Aggregate, on matrix, of cubic Fluorite crystals. They are transparent, bright, have a vivid yellow color, are partially coated by Pyrite microcrystals and are with twinned scalenohedral Calcite crystals. The sample corresponds to the first findings at the Villabona mine (not to be confused with the Moscona mine), of which few pieces remain nowadays.
Villabona Mines, Barrio de la Estación, Villabona, Llanera, Comarca del Nora, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain (1971-1972)

Specimen size: 15.7 × 13.5 × 5.3 cm = 6.18” × 5.31” × 2.09”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite
 

N8ZH5: We call attention to the locality. Crystals are octahedral and the faces and edges are well defined and deep violet, so dark that it is nearly black.
Arteixo, Comarca A Coruña, La Coruña / A Coruña, Galicia / Galiza  Spain (1999)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 2.72” × 1.30” × 0.91”

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

Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
Octahedral Fluorite
Octahedral Fluorite. Octahedral Fluorite.
 

NA10V5: Druze of small octahedral crystals with their faces and edges slightly curved. They are bright and have an extraordinarily deep violet color. They are transparent and are coating a rocky matrix.
Uxes, Arteixo, Comarca A Coruña, La Coruña / A Coruña, Galicia / Galiza  Spain (2011)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.3 × 2.1 cm = 3.94” × 2.48” × 0.83”

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



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