This piece requires explanation. What might seem to be just another Fluorite from La Viesca always intrigued me because of its age and its somewhat different appearance from others in that area. I sold it at the time to Alain Martaud and, when he sold part of his collection, I got it back and, still intrigued by it, was showing it to José Ramón García, who, without hesitation, solved the enigma. For him, without a doubt, it is from the famous Aurora Mine in the same town of Caravia (currently buried under the municipal soccer field)
Aurora Mine, Aurora vein, Caravia mining area, El Cuetu, Prado, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias) Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.65” × 1.42”
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