Fluorite with Quartz from La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Spain

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Very aerial floater Fluorite specimen made up of cubic crystals with well defined faces and edges and polycrystalline growths of a bluish color typical of La Viesca, forming staggered growths on which Quartz crystals have grown in a very aerial way, probably by epitaxial growth on an ancient Calcite crystal already completely dissolved when the Quartz was precipitated.
A very characteristic and notable example of what the La Viesca Mine, which closed in 2021, used to offer.
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain
Specimen size: 13.8 × 9.9 × 7.4 cm = 5.43” × 3.90” × 2.91”
Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.98”
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