RM495
Beautiful stepped formation on the edges of this Fontsante fluorite, with blue and yellow zonings. The crystal itself has a slight hint of maroon colours, with a sparkly quartz ‘sidecar’.
Locality: Fontsante Mine, Draguignan, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 3.9 x 3.1cm
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Known for its numerous beautiful minerals such as fluorite, baryte, calcite, galena, marcasite, (rose) quartz, and sellaite, as well as silver minerals. Fluorite mining started in 1919 but ceased in 1987. Today, all adits are closed.
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A sweet yellow Valzergues corner with two parallel, brighter yellow zonings within and blue zonings at the edges.
Locality: Valzergues, Aveyron, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 1.9 x 1.5cm
Delicate rose pink to red fluorite crystals perched aesthetically on a jagged formation of smoky quartz; an uncommon and highly sought-after combination in alpine mineral specimens. The sharp, well-formed octahedral crystals contrast beautifully with the pointed quartzes, in both form and colour.
Locality: Chamonix, Mont Blanc, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 3.9 x 2.8cm
A beautiful tricolour La Barre cluster with several glassy crystals exhibiting yellow phantoms, blue and thin purple zonings. Excellent transparency and good lustre.
Locality: La Barre Mine, Saint-Jacques-d’Ambur, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 2.4 x 2cm
An unusual Marsanges corner with a translucent mint green layer, atop a sharper, saturated red layer of zoning which one can see from its side, followed by another mint green layer atop a deeper red core.
Locality: Marsanges Mine, Haute-Loire, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 2.2 x 1.9 cm
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