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Apatite

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This is an exquisite, competition quality, fluorapatite specimen. It is a large thumbnail or small miniature depending on how you display it. The color is a light green with super luster. For me, the specimen is highlighted by a transparent crystal exhibiting color zoning around the perimeter of the crystal. This gem crystal is 1.35 cm across. I don't think I have ever seen another apatite crystal like this before.

Product details

SpeciesApatite
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.0 x 1.6 x 0.8 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.