Carbonate-fluorapatite

  
faint yellow apatite with robertsite and clear whitlockite on smoky quartz matrix
Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA
Sample size: 10 x 5 x 2 cm
 
    
faint yellow apatite with clear whitlockite on smoky quartz matrix
Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA
Sample size: 5 x 5 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co., Utah, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Carbonate-fluorapatite and robertsite
Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Carbonate-fluorapatite on feldspar matrix
  
Carbonate-fluorapatite on quartz
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
Carbonate-fluorapatite on feldspar matrix
Origin: Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 10.5 x 7.1 x 2.4 cm (top), 9 x 6.3 x 2.9 cm (2nd row), 4.9 x 4.3 x 2.9 cm (3rd row), 9.1 x 5.2 x 2 cm (4th/5th row), 5.2 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm (6th row), 6.1 x 5.3 x 3.2 cm (7th row), 5.4 x 5.3 x 3.1 cm (8th row), 7 x 3 x 2.1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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