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Apatite

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Large, intact, green crystals with the lower part covered with micro-crystallized siderite and a perfectly crystallized, lustrous upper part topped with two perfect pseudo-hexagonal crystals of siderite. The Panasqueira mine is famous for its paragenesis whereby several species occur very well crystallized in the same group.

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Species
ApatiteAbout Apatite →
Added on11/10/2024
Locality
Portugal, Panasqueira MinesRegional guide →

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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.