Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs) from Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
DESCRIPTION: | No. 75284
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Mineral: | Fluorapatite with Bertrandite (including pseudomorphs)
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Locality: | Lavra da Golconda, near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Description: | Lustrous transparent purple hexagonal fluorapatite crystals to 11 mm with flat basal pinacoid terminations, on translucent yellow bladed bertrandite crystals to 2.5 mm in three pseudomorphic casts after a prismatic mineral (hydroxylherderite?) Collected ca. 1980 |
Overall Size: | 5x4.5x3.5 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-11.0 mm |
Status: | Sold - Posted here for reference only |
Buy similar: | Minerals from Brazil & South America > Pseudomorphs (False Form) |
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