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Fluorapatite from Portugal, Panasqueira Mines

Ben Strauss
Ben Strauss
Denver
0 for sale·Member since 2025

Product details

Species
FluorapatiteAbout Fluorapatite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions2.0 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
Added on09/11/2025
Locality
Portugal, Panasqueira MinesRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
01/2024Ben StraussNot disclosed
—Alex SchaussNot disclosed

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Fluorapatite
Mineral guide
Learn about Fluorapatite
glassy hexagonal prisms in green, blue, yellow, pink, and more; valued for color, luster, and standout localities like Panasqueira and Sapo Mine.
Fluorapatite
Regional guide
Fluorapatite from Panasqueira Mines, Portugal
Panasasqueira is one of the great names in European mineral collecting, and fluorapatite is one of the minerals that made it so. The mine’s best crystals have the instantly recognizable Panasqueira look: lustrous hexagonal prisms and thick tabular crystals, commonly green to grey-green, blue-green, colorless, white, lilac, violet, or color-zoned, perched on glittering muscovite, siderite rhombs, arsenopyrite, quartz, pyrite, fluorite, or black bladed ferberite. A good Panasqueira apatite is not merely “green apatite”; it carries the whole visual grammar of the deposit—flat hydrothermal quartz veins, silvery mica selvages, sulfide sparkle, and the clean geometry of slowly grown phosphate crystals.