| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Brazil > Fluorapatite with Bertrandite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 63999 |
| Mineral: | Fluorapatite with Bertrandite |
| Locality: | Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Description: | Rich specimen of lustrous transparent fluorapatite crystals to 10 mm intermixed with bladed translucent white to limonite-stained brown bertrandite crystals to 2 mm. The fluorapatite crystals have purple outer zones and greenish-gray core zones. Collected ca. 1980 |
| Overall Size: | 4.5x2.5x2.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-10 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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