Although it may not look like it in the photo, this is an overwhelming piece, for the size of the crystals, for their sharpness and perfection and, above all, for the numerous oriented inclusions of natural hydrocarbons inside the large crystals of Fluorite. We are used to seeing this type of inclusion inside Berbes quartzes, but much less in their fluorites. The piece is a floater and, in my opinion, spectacular.
Cuetu L'Aspa, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (±1980)
Specimen size: 12.4 × 8 × 5.4 cm = 4.88” × 3.15” × 2.13”
Main crystal size: 5.7 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.57”
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