Fluorapatite

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Gloserheia was an open pit mine quarried from 1881 to 1986 for Feldspar and Quartz in pegmatite in Agder county in Norway. The pegmatite contained some exceptionally large Fluorapatite crystals, the largest of which reached a metre or more across. This more modest crystal, at just over 2 cm across, is slightly flattened in form with modified, somewhat rounded edges, and grey in colour, embedded in Quartz and Feldspar with several other smaller Apatite crystals. This is a rarely seen specimen from this important and now closed Norwegian locality. Ex David Hardman Collection, no. 164, and with an older printed label from Torfinn Kjaernet.