mineral general info

Apatite

Origin: La Fibbia, St. Gotthard Massif, Tessin, Switzerland

Sample size: 6.2 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm

Origin: Eagle Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.2 x 2.6 cm

Origin: Ipira, Bahia, Brazil

Sample size: 2.6 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm

Colourless apatite crystal sitting amongst olive-green epidote, yellow-green augite and hairy needles of byssolite, some of which grow into the apatite crystals, on a matrix of banded gneiss.

Origin: Obersulzbach Valley, Hohe Tauern Mts., Salzburg, Austria

Ex. Wein collection

Sample size: 5.8 x 5.0 x 3.3 cm

Origin: Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico

Sample size: 3.0 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky