AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Brazil > Fluorapatite with minor Bertrandite |
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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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