Description
Beautiful sample of violet fluorite (fluorite) in polysynthetic crystals, from the Les Rocs quarry, Buxières-les-Mines, Allier.
Located on the edge of the Aumance coalfield, the Buxières-les-Mines coal mines were worked underground from 1850 onwards, then as a quarry from 1993 to 2001, before finally being transformed into a water body in 2007.
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