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JFD242AQ1: Panasqueira ferberites are among the standard-bearers of that mining district, but have always been difficult to acquire without flaws and with a certain “dynamism”, like this piece in which the many Ferberite crystals seem scattered in the Quartz crystals, which are very transparent and have small Muscovite rosettes at their base.
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Region Portugal (1996)
Specimen size: 4 × 3.9 × 5.4 cm = 1.57” × 1.54” × 2.13”
Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.47”
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