AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Fluorapatite on Albite with Muscovite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 70431 |
Mineral: | Fluorapatite on Albite with Muscovite |
Locality: | Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine |
Description: | Lustrous translucent greenish-gray fluorapatite crystal in a small albite cavity with two platy muscovite mica crystals. The fluorapatite crystal has a basal pinacoid termination with pyramidal edge faces and fluoresces yellow under SW UV illumination. Collected in 2002 |
Overall Size: | 22x18x13 mm |
Crystals: | 8 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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