Apatite

  
  
Origin: Liscombe Deposit, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 6.8 x 4.8 x 5.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Pulsifer Quarry, Auburn, Andrascoggin Co., Maine, U.S.A.
Sample size: 1.7 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
 
Origin: Dattaw, Mogok, Burma
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.1 x 0.6 cm
 
  
Origin: Mawi, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
Sample size: 4.1 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm
 
  
  
Origin: Darrah Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
 
  
  
Very glassy, light pink to colorless, tabular apatite crystals jauntily and vertically perched on matrix covered with lustrous, dolomite rhombs, which are peppered with tiny pyrrhotite crystals.
Origin: Morro Velho, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Ed Ruggiero collection
Sample size: 5.0 x 4.9 x 4.0 cm
 
  
Origin: Panasqueira, Portugal
Ex. Ed Swoboda collection
Sample size: 6.1 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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