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 cau