RM530
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
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Presumably the most widely-known fluorite locality in France, the La Barre mine, which was worked from 1918 until 1948, had a large fluorite-quartz vein hosted in migmatites, but all adits have since closed. The deposit is known for producing blue and yellow fluorite specimens, sometimes with blue and purple zonings, or yellow phantoms.
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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
Despite its age, this Chavaniac-Lafayette fluorite still exhibits bright blue colours, with a darker blue zoning and yellow zoning on its outer edges.
Locality: Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 4.7 x 2.2cm
Bright yellow Clersanges fluorite with multiple sharp purple zonings within, with the edges being colourless.
Locality: Clersanges mine, Saint-Pal-de-Senouire, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 2.8 x 2.3cm
Appearing as a dark blue fluorite crystal at first glance, with some backlight, it really comes alive- displaying wondrous multicoloured zonings of blue, maroon, yellow and purple. Not many, if any, other fluorite from other localities have displayed such a wide colour spectrum as this.
Locality: Le Grand Altier, Lozère, France 🇫🇷
Measures: Approx. 1.6 x 1.1cm
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