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Fluorapatite on Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

 
Fluorapatite on Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorapatite on Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 75803
Mineral:Fluorapatite on Bertrandite
Locality:Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Lustrous translucent gray fluorapatite crystals to 5 mm intermixed with platy pale-yellow bertrandite crystals to 0.3 mm on quartz-albite. The fluorapatite crystals have purple outer zones with yellow core zones and fluoresce under SW UV illumination.
Overall Size:21x15x14 mm
Crystals:micro to 5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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