AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Maine > Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite

Search
 

Online Mineral Museum Archive of Mineral Photographs and Mineral Descriptions from John Betts - Fine Minerals.com and Allminerals.com

   

Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

 
Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite from Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 75419
Mineral:Fluorapatite on Albite with Goethite, Whitlockite
Locality:Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Translucent 7 mm green-gray fluorapatite crystal in a cavity lined with lustrous parallel transparent colorless platy albite crystals to 0.5 mm with brown goethite and whitlockite microcrystals. The fluorapatite crystal is the carbonate-rich variety. Collected ca. 1970
Overall Size:3.5x2.5x2 cm
Crystals:micro to 7 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

© AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals All Rights Reserved

The minerals illustrated on this site are presented for reference purposes only. The owner of this site did not collect the minerals and collectors should not assume access is permitted to the property based on inclusion in this museum. Please contact the property owner to obtain legal permission before entering private property. ;