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Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

 
Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

DESCRIPTION:No. 75284
Mineral:Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs)
Locality:Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Description:Lustrous transparent purple hexagonal fluorapatite crystals to 11 mm with flat basal pinacoid terminations, on translucent yellow bladed bertrandite crystals to 2.5 mm in three pseudomorphic casts after a prismatic mineral (hydroxylherderite?) Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:5x4.5x3.5 cm
Crystals:0.5-11.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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