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Fluorapatite

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Arvada, Colorado, USA
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Extremely lustrous fluorapatite and ferberite from Panasqueira, on muscovite. Lustrous blue-green fluorapatites are on blades of metallic ferberite. Specimen is in great condition, the only notable damage is some breaks along the ferberite that isn’t very noticeable. Contacted on a small portion of the bottom. A fantastic piece from this classic Portuguese locale.

Product details

Species
Fluorapatite, FerberiteAbout Fluorapatite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.7 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm
Listed on09/16/2025
Locality
Portugal, Panasqueira MinesRegional guide →
SKU26064

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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.