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Apatite

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The most desired color for Panasqueira fluorapatite has always been the gemmy purple, barrel shaped crystals. This is a prime example and a competition quality miniature, to boot. It features a pristine, 1.8 cm across, gemmy, lustrous, purple edged, color zoned, fluorapatite crystal, perched jauntily on muscovite. Its quality should not surprise anyone since it was once in the world class collection of Steve and Clara Smale.

Product details

SpeciesApatite
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.9 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityPortugal, Panasqueira Mines

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
08/2024Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—The ArkenstoneNot disclosed

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Apatite
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.
Apatite
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.