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La Collada old timers

The "Collada" and "Josefa-Veneros" veins at La Collada rate among the greatest in Spanish mineralogy. All Spanish collectors dream of having one of the extraordinary specimens in their collection. The specimens have a wide variation in, normally intense, color, modified edges to the crystals, and really very special forms. Although people recently found material in the same region and it is not that distinct from the classic ones, the old timers still have that special something.

Fluorite with Quartz

B6RS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this Fluorite on Quartz is slightly different from the classic Fluorites on Calcite, which are characteristic from that vein.

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.7” × 0.6” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

Fluorite with Quartz

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.4” × 0.6” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

L56RS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this Fluorite on Quartz is slightly different from the classic Fluorites on Calcite, which are characteristic from that vein.

Fluorite

X56RS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada.

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.0” × 0.7” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

Fluorite with Quartz and Pyrite

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

M6RS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this Fluorite on Quartz and with Pyrite is slightly different from the classic Fluorites on Calcite, which are characteristic from that vein.

Fluorite with Quartz

D56TS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this Fluorite on Quartz is slightly different from the classic Fluorites on Calcite, which are characteristic from that vein.

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 1.5” × 0.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

Fluorite with Quartz

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.5” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

F56RS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this Fluorite on Quartz is slightly different from the classic Fluorites on Calcite, which are characteristic from that vein.

Fluorite with Calcite

L8RS6

From the mythic Josefa-Veneros vein at La Collada, this classic Fluorite shows a little bit of Calcite on its back side, the typical matrix for the Fluorites of that vein.

Filón Josefa-Veneros, La Collada, Siero, Asturias
Spain

±1970

Specimen size: 6 × 5.3 × 4.6 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”

Quartz from Sils

In a small quarry near Barcelona, appeared good samples of smoky Quartz and exceptionally some Quartz Amethyst. Lots of local collectors go there on the weekends hoping to find the sample of their dreams. As we know many of them we hear about new finds and see the specimens found. Here are some of them. If you want to know more about Sils Quartz please follow this link

Smoky Quartz with Microcline and Albite

Cantera trabajos AVE, Riudarenes, La Selva, Girona
Spain

2005

Specimen size: 7 × 4.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.8” × 1.7” × 1.5”

Smoky Quartz with Microcline and Albite.

NF10S6

Smoky Quartz from the finds of a few years ago when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.

Sceptered Quartz (Amethyst) with smoky Quartz

NH9S6

Sceptered Quartz Amethyst from the finds of a few years ago, when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.

Sceptered Quartz (Amethyst) with smoky Quartz.

Cantera trabajos AVE, Riudarenes, La Selva, Girona
Spain

08/2005

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 2.4” × 1.4” × 1.1”

Quartz (Amethyst) with Microcline

Cantera trabajos AVE, Riudarenes, La Selva, Girona
Spain

07/2006

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.0”

NG12S6

Quartz Amethyst from the finds of a few years ago, when the workings of the new high-speed train (AVE) crossed a mineralized area of the Montseny Mountains near Barcelona.

Sceptered Quartz (Amethyst)

NH11S6

Sceptered Quartz Amethyst with a very intense color, from a quarry located in the Montseny Mountains area near Barcelona.

Pedrera Mas Sabe, Massabè (Mas Ceber), Sils, La Selva, Girona
Spain

10/2005

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.1” × 0.7”

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