Fluorapatite

Pyrite crystals sprinkled over a colour-zoned fluorapatite crystal

Origin: Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Sample size: field of view 4 mm

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

 

Origin: Barbara Mine, Western Australia, Australia

Sample size:  unknown

Sample owner:  Steve Sorrell

 

Origin: Prince Lyell Shaft, Mt. Lyell, Tasmania, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

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Fluorapatite with fluorite and quartz

  

  

Origin: Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Chenzhou area, Hunan, Central South Region, China

Sample size: 4.5 x 4.6 x 2.1 cm (top/2nd row), 6.2 x 5.4 x 2.9 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

  

Fluorapatite with minor chalcopyrite

Origin: Pea Ridge Mine, Washington Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 2.7 x 2.2 x 4.5 cm

 

  

  

Fluorapatite on microcline

Origin: Paprok, Konar (Kunar; Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan

Sample size: 5 x 6.3 x 3.5 cm

 

  

  

Fluorapatite with arsenopyrite and siderite on matrix of muscovite that looks like a pseudomorph after a tabular mineral, shaped like pyrrhotite

Origin: Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco District, Portugal

Sample size: 7.4 x 5.2 x 6.4 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  

Origin: Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico

Ex. Ernie Schlichter collection

Sample size: 6.2 x 5 x 4 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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