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Fluorapatite, Quartz, Cookeite on Albite from Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

 
Fluorapatite, Quartz, Cookeite on Albite from Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite, Quartz, Cookeite on Albite from Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite, Quartz, Cookeite on Albite from Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite, Quartz, Cookeite on Albite from Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 52662
Mineral:Fluorapatite, Quartz, Cookeite on Albite
Locality:Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Three lustrous purple fluorapatite crystals to 8 mm in shallow cavities in white albite with colorless quartz crystals to 2 mm and rounded tufts to 0.2 mm of brown cookeite. The largest fluorapatite crystal has a contact from the opposing pocket wall. Ex. Harvard University Mineralogical Auction in 1990; acquired in 1982 from Dr. E. L. Prien collection #410
Overall Size:5.5x5x4 cm
Crystals:0.1-8.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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