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

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

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

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

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorapatite with Bertrandite from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

DESCRIPTION:No. 63990
Mineral:Fluorapatite with Bertrandite
Locality:Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Description:Lustrous transparent grayish-purple fluorapatite crystals to 8 mm mixed with platy yellow bertrandite crystals to 1.5 mm. The fluorapatite crystals are prismatic form, with striated prism faces and flat basal pinacoid terminations and fluoresce under UV. Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:18x17x12 mm
Crystals:micro to 8 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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