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JFD163AO8: Alain is an inexhaustible source of French surprises. I bought this cobaltoan 'fried egg' from him in Tucson 2020, very shortly before the world stopped due to the pandemic. When I saw the specimen for the first time I was convinced that it was from the San Carlos mine in Huesca, Spain, It looks so much like the Spanish ones! That it was a former Alain collection piece convinced me to buy it.
Les Cabesses, Rivèrenert, Saint-Girons, Ariège Department, Occitanie France (2018)
Specimen size: 11.3 × 7.1 × 3.7 cm = 4.45” × 2.80” × 1.46”
Main crystal size: 7.1 × 5.6 cm = 2.80” × 2.20”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV Former collection of Alain Martaud Former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates)
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