My name is Juan Fernández Buelga. I was born in Oviedo, Asturias (Spain), the 23rd of October, in 1982. I live in Santander, Cantabria (Spain), where I finished my degree in business administration. Nowadays, I am studying geology at the University of Oviedo. My passion with minerals started long time ago. In fact, before I was five, I used to go with my father, Agustín Fernández, in the search of new finds for the mineralogy of this part of Spain. He has spent most of his life in one aim, make the Fernández Buelga Collection the best and most complete mineral collection of the Cantabric Mountain Range. Thanks to this, my interest in minerals has become bigger and, now that I am 25, this is more than a hobby.

 

As I have said before, all our collection is from the Cantabric Mountain Range, where you can find lots of mineral localities, in some of wich there have been found specimens of the world´s best quality. Mining activity in this place has been going on since Prehistoric times till nowadays.

 

As a lover in Cantabric Mountain Range´s mineralogy that I am, I would like everybody worldwide can get to know, thanks to this web, at least, a small part of the mineral beauty hides in this land.