Apatite

  

Origin: Mantena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 5.9 x 5.4 x 4.5 cm

 

     

  

Origin: Imichil, Anti-Atlas Mts., Morocco

Sample size: 2.8 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm

 

  

Apatite with muscovite

Origin: Panasqueira Mine, Castelo Branco District, Portugal

Ex. Fred Pough collection

Sample size: 2.4 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm

 

  

  

A 1.6 cm, purple apatite crystal nicely perched on white albite and a bi-colored, terminated tourmaline crystal.

Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.3 x 3.0 cm

 

  

  

This small cabinet size piece features a few beautiful, rare, relatively sharp, gemmy, pale pink, tabular crystals of apatite measuring up to 2.0 cm sitting atop gemmy, prismatic quartz crystals associated with tan coloured siderite discs and a few minor blue green vivianite crystals.

Origin: Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia

Sample size: 9.2 x 7.6 x 4.7 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone