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Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

 
Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorapatite with Muscovite from Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

DESCRIPTION:No. 64005
Mineral:Fluorapatite with Muscovite
Locality:Lavra do Joćo Pinto, Fazenda Santa Elisa, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Description:Large lustrous translucent dark-green fluorapatite crystals to 22 mm with platy bronze-colored hexagonal muscovite crystals to 20 mm. The fluorapatite crystals are 12-sided prisms with pyramidal edge faces around the basal pinacoid terminations. Collected ca. 1985
Overall Size:4.5x3x3 cm
Crystals:3-22 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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