Fluorapatite

Origin: Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Sample size: 5.5 x 5.5 x 7.5 cm

 

  

Fluorapatite with siderite on quartz

  

 

Origin: Panasqueira Mines, Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco District, Portugal

Sample size: 3.5 x 4.5 x 8.5 cm (top/2nd row), 25 x 17 x 28 mm (2nd row), 3.2 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 5.2 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Origin: King Lithia mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone, Keystone district, Pennington Co., South Dakota, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.1 x 2.6 x 3.1 cm

 

  

Fluorapatite with chlorite

Origin: Namushima Island, Nagasaki, Japan

Sample size:7 x 8 x 6 mm fluorapatite crystal

 

  

Origin: Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 4 cm

 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  

Vuggy quartz matrix with several light purple hexagonal prisms to 5mm lining large vug.

Origin: Schlaggenwald, Karlovarsky Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Erling collection

Sample size: 8 x 5 x 3 cm

 

  

Light purple hexagonal crystals to 5 mm on elbaite encrusted over with very micro crystals of bertrandite and todorokite.

Origin: Golconda mine, Governador, Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 1 cm

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