Fluorapatite

8.3 x

6.4 x

7.0 x

Origin: Opal Hill mine (N of Palo Verde), Riverside Co, California, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

Microscopic image, 8.6 x

 

  

Origin: Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico

Owner: Milton Speckels

Sample size: 1.9 cm wide (left), 3.1 cm tall

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Fluorapatite on quartz

Origin: Harvard quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Maine, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 5 cm

 

  

 

  

Fluorapatite with muscovite

Origin: Jose Pinto mine, near Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

ex Lloyd Tate collection

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 5 cm (top), 4.5 x 2.5 x 4.5 cm (bottom)

 

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