Moscona Mine Fluorite Specimens

✧Listing is for ONE Moscona Mine Fluorite Specimen pictured above. Pick your own. 

✧Moscona Mine, El Pontón de Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, Spain.

✧”From the beginning it has been the company’s most productive mine for Asturian fluorite and one of the most competitive ones in Europe, with very significant production levels that nowadays can reach 5 million tons with an average CaF2 (fluorite) yield of over 30%… 

The beauty and the combinations between the minerals found at Moscona Mine mean that many collectors have them in their collections. It must be noted that fluorite is found in crystal layers with nearly total predominance of the color yellow, although in a very few cases pockets with violet-blue crystals have been found. Another distinctive mineral for this deposit is the barite that often has a natural blue color while those crystals that were originally white can be exposed to the sun or another UV radiation source to turn them blue. This phenomenon seems to be caused by the appearance of color centers related to relatively low energy sources…

The widespread distribution of calcite within the mine and the great variety of crystalline habits found for this mineral are the reasons for calcite to be one of the most sought after species from the Moscona Mine.”

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✧A: deep honey yellow color; calcite; dolomite

✧B: pale yellow color; dolomite; calcite

✧C: classic yellow color; calcite; possible chalcopyrite (some cubes are not intact)

✧D: classic yellow color; calcite; possible hematite inclusions

✧E: classic yellow color; dolomite; sugar druzy

✧F: classic yellow color; dolomite; calcite; possible chalcopyrite

✧G: classic yellow color; dolomite; possible chalcopyrite

✧H: deep honey yellow color; dolomite; calcite (some scalenohedral)

✧I: classic yellow color; dolomite; possible chalcopyrite; uncommon barite druzy!

✧J: deep honey yellow color; dolomite

✧K:  honey yellow color; possible chalcopyrite; calcite on bottom (some minor damage... one cube damaged)

✧L: pale yellow color; possible chalcopyrite & hematite inclusions (some minor damage... chipped edges of cubes)

✧M: classic yellow color; lots of dolomite

✧N: deep honey yellow color; lots of chalcopyrite; dolomite

✧O: dolomite; chalcopyrite on bottom; uncommon barite druzy!