Apatite

  
              Sample size: 2.5 cm across              Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm, crystals to 8 mm
 
  
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 1 cm crystal                       Sample size: 3 x 2 partial crystal
 
 
    
Honey colored, clear crystal, terminated to 1.7 cm associated with actinolite.
Origin: Smith mine, Iron Springs, Iron Co., Utah, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Apatite crystals to 1.5 cm with zinnwaldite and calcite
Apatite crystals to 8 mm, with siderite on zinnwaldite
Origin: Panasqueira Mine, Panasqueira, Beira Baixa Province, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Owner: Steve Rust
 
1 mm diameter off-white apatite crystal associated with quartz and mica
Origin: Cligga mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
1.5 mm Crystal with clinochlore in quartz
Origin: Croft Gothal mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Apatite with inclusions of schorl needles on albite matrix
Origin: Balachi, Gilgit, NWFP, Pakistan
ex. Lloyd Tate Collection
Sample size: 3.25 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm
 
  
Apatite with fluorite and calcite
Origin: Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 7.5 x 6 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Panasquiera, Portugal
Ex. Dr. Stephen Smale collection
Sample size: 3 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm
 
  
Apatite with fairfieldite
Origin: Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Ex. Marty Zinn, John Barlow collections
Sample size: 8 x 8 x 3.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: Sauberg, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 5.5 x 2.5 x 3.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Sao Geraldo do Baixio, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America
Sample size: 7.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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