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Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

 
Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite from Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 76069
Mineral:Fluorapatite var. Purple Apatite with Bertrandite
Locality:Emmons Quarry, southeastern slope of Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Lustrous translucent purple fluorapatite crystals to 5 mm intermixed with platy pale-yellow bertrandite crystals to 1 mm on quartz-albite. The fluorapatite crystals are thin, tabular hexagonal form and vary from transparent to translucent. Collected by Ray Sprague
Overall Size:3.5x3x2 cm
Crystals:micro to 5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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