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Fluorapatite from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality for Fluorapatite)

 
Fluorapatite from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality for Fluorapatite)

Fluorapatite from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality for Fluorapatite)

Fluorapatite from Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality for Fluorapatite)

DESCRIPTION:No. 44489
Mineral:Fluorapatite
Locality:Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality for Fluorapatite)
Description:Transparent purple apatite crystals up to 11 mm long on one face of quartz matrix with lustrous milky quartz crystals to 4 mm long. The apatite are lustrous hexagonal crystals with excellent color for the locality. Ex. Henry D. Miller (1838-1919 or 1920) collection, (see Final Disposition Of Some American Collections Of Minerals, Frederick A. Canfield, 1923), bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1909; ex. Loomis-Chaffee School
Overall Size:9.5x5x4 cm
Crystals:1-11 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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