Fluoro Apatite, Quartz

Dimensions: 12 x 4.3cm Location: Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal A great classic of mineralogy. Excellent Apatite, perfect, beautiful color with pretty ghosts. The width of the crystal is remarkable (3.6cm). The arrangement on the quartz crystal is very elegant, offering a nice volume to the piece. The mineral is not glued to the base (soft putty).

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SpeciesApatite, Quartz

SizeCabinet

Dimensions12.0 x 4.3 cm

Added on05/08/2026

LocalityPortugal, Panasqueira Mines

Current owner

Barras Gautier Minéraux

Member since 2026

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Mineral guide

Learn about Apatite

hexagonal crystals with vivid greens, blues, and violets; forms range from pegmatites to alpine pockets, valued for color, form, and affordability.

Regional guide

Apatite from Panasqueira Mines, Portugal

from the Panasqueira Mines is one of the signature mineral classics of Europe: glassy, hexagonal fluorapatite, most often in green, blue-green, colorless, pale yellow, violet, or purple crystals, set against the unmistakable Panasqueira palette of silvery arsenopyrite, ribbed black ferberite, sparkling muscovite, siderite, quartz, pyrite, sphalerite, fluorite, calcite, and other vein minerals. In serious collections the label is usually shortened to “apatite,” but the collector-specimen species from Panasqueira is fluorapatite, Ca5(PO4)3F.

Locality guide

Panasqueira Mines

Panasqueira Mines, Portugal — premier locality yielding tungsten, ferberite, arsenopyrite, fluorapatite, and colorful quartz associations prized by collectors.

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