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

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:

DESCRIPTION:	No. 72780
Mineral:	Fluorapatite over Bertrandite
Locality:	Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Description:	Lustrous transparent gray to deep-purple fluorapatite crystals to 5 mm intermixed with platy yellow bertrandite crystals to 0.5 mm. The fluorapatite crystals are prismatic form, with striated prism faces and flat basal pinacoid terminations. Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:	30x25x17 mm
Crystals:	micro to 5 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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