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Fluorapatite from Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina

 
Fluorapatite from Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina

Fluorapatite from Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina

Fluorapatite from Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina

Fluorapatite from Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina

Photo below under longwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorapatite from Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina

DESCRIPTION:No. 81808
Mineral:Fluorapatite
Locality:Foote Mine, King's Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Description:Lustrous transparent brown fluorapatite crystals on one face of quartz-muscovite matrix. The fluorapatite crystals fluoresce orange under longwave ultraviolet illumination. Ex. Miller collection T2682; ex. Betts #64253; ex. Dana & Betty Morse collection
Overall Size:26x25x22 mm
Crystals:3-10 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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