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Baryte
Group of XX with brown phantoms
7x5.5cm
La Union, Murcia. Spain
Specimen n.323
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Baryte
Group of tabular XX, up to 4.5cm long, partially covered by bitumen
12.5x6.5cm
LaUnion, Murcia. Spain
Specimen n.85
Another photo: entire
piece
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Baryte
Blue XX on limonitic matrix
7x6cm
La Union, Murcia. Spain
Specimen n.84
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Baryte
Baryte XX, up to 1.5cm long, widely scattered on a thin plate of
matrix
14.5x9cm
La Union, Murcia. Spain
Specimen n.82
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Baryte
Group of pale gray-blue XX
10x6.5cm
La Union, Murcia. Spain
Specimen n.28
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Calcite
X of calcite, 3 cm long, semitransparent,
on small yellowish fluorite
5x6.5cm
Moscona mine, Villabona, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n.28
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Chalcanthite
Spray of thin electric blue XX on limestone
8x6cm
Almeria. Spain
Specimen n.15
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Fluorite
Octahedral XX, semitransparent, edges up to 0.9cm. I usually see
green octahedron, from this mine
6x6cm
Berta Quarry, Sant Cugat del Valles, El Papiol. Spain
Specimen n.420
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Fluorite
Cubic glassy XX, very transparent, on brown micro crystalline quartz
7.5x8cm
Emilio mine, La Collada, Caravia, Oviedo District, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n. 637
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Fluorite
Cubic purple XX, semitransparent and opaque, up to 1.4cm edge; the
specimen is partially covered by micro crystalline quartz on one side
7.6x6cm
Berbes mine, Berbes, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n. 20
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Fluorite
Cubic X posted on a base of quartz. The X has clear phantoms
8x6cm
Berbes mine, Berbes, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n. 1441
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Fluorite
Cubic violet XX on matrix with lamellar light pink XX of Baryte
8.5x7cm
Berbes mine, Berbes, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n.26
2nd photo
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Fluorite
Plate of pyrite covered by cubic XX of yellow fluorite, edge
up to 1.2 cm
12x10cm
Moscona mine, Villabona, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n.885 |
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Fluorite
Mass of cubic XX, transparent, yellowish, on white-yellow matrix
6.8x7cm
Moscona mine, Villabona, Asturias. Spain
Specimen n.80
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Pyrite
Classic cubic X, edge max 2.5 cm, from this famous mine-quarry,
exploited to obtain pyrite for collection purposes
8x6cm
Navajun, La Rioja. Spain
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Prehenite
Rounded balls made by small green semi-transparent XX
10x7cm
Jaen. Spain
Specimen n.50
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