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Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

 
Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

DESCRIPTION:No. 63988
Mineral:Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite
Locality:Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Description:Lustrous transparent purple to grayish-green fluorapatite crystals to 9 mm with one area of platy pale-yellow bertrandite crystals to 2 mm. The fluorapatite crystals are prismatic form, with striated prism faces and flat basal pinacoid terminations. Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:21x13x9 mm
Crystals:1-9 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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