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Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

 
Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite from Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)

DESCRIPTION:No. 75415
Mineral:Fluorapatite with Quartz and Cookeite
Locality:Mount Rubellite, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine (Type Locality for Cookeite)
Description:Double-sided specimen of lustrous tabular hexagonal transparent purple fluorapatite crystals to 6.5 mm with slender lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 4 mm on spherical translucent tan-colored cookeite crystals to 0.5 mm. Ex. Garza collection; collected ca. 1970
Overall Size:22x15x11 mm
Crystals:micro to 6.5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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