mineral general info

Apatite

Origin: Gischi glazier, Binntal, Switzerland

Picture height: 3mm

Sample owner: F.C.A. de Wit

Photo courtesy of:

Pieter Stemvers, Leusden, Netherlands

Origin: Chhurka, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Northern Area, Pakistan

Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm

More apatite photos from this locality

Apatite on arsenopyrite with siderite

Origin: Panasqueira mine, Portugal

Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3 cm

Small 1 cm light green hexagonal crystal in bluish calcite

Origin: Henshaw quarry, Riverside Co., California, United States

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm

Origin: Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada

Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm

Apatite with schorl

Origin: Gunheath Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England

Sample size: 4 x 4.5 x 3 cm

Apatite on earthy, white fairfieldite

Origin: Lithium Corp of America, Bessemer City, Gaston Co., North Carolina, United States

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm

Apatite on orthoclase matrix

Origin: Sapo mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 13 x 6 x 3 cm (top/2nd row), 10 x 10 x 4 cm (3rd/4th/bottom row)

Photo courtesy of:

Tom Loomis

Origin: Huanuco Mining Department, Peru

Owner: Axel Emmermann

Crystals up to 1 cm on a matrix covered with muscovite. The orange-yellow fluorescence is so fierce that even the dark coloured muscovite shows up on the photo. It is uncertain which activator is responsible for this fluorescence: Mn 2+ plus a co-activator or Dysprosium 3+. Stereo photo under short wave UV.

Close-up of a water-clear crystal. The fluorescence is clearly strongest in the top face of the crystal. Stereo photo under short wave UV.

Origin: Gilgit Region, Pakistan

Owner: Axel Emmermann

Fluorapatite crystals up to a few millimetres on a dark matrix. This specimen shows a strong magenta-pink fluorescence. The activator is believed to be trivalent samarium. Stereo photo under short wave UV.

Origin: Huanzala, Huanuco dept., Peru

Owner: Axel Emmermann

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