A lot happening on this specimen. In the white light photo, you can see tabular pale blue hexagonal fluorapatite crystals with muscovite mica, and brown areas appear to be goethite coating cassiterite. In the longwave...
Tiny pale baby blue crystals of fluorapatite. Yellow plates of saleeite also present on the specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single colourless hexagonal prism of fluorapatite. The greenish yellow mineral is cyrilovite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 140 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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A brownish-green single fluorapatite crystal with a small amount of attached galena. Shown side lit. Crystal measures 22mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown prismatic ferrosilite crystals with tan andesine, platy ilmenite, and acicular fluorapatite needles. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of yellow-green apatite crystals with the largest 31mm wide, with minor cassiterite and arsenopyrite. The apatite exhibits orange zoned fluorescence. Ex Barry Porter Collection. Ex Mike and Coralie Fisher Collection. Click on the...
Colourless rhombs of whitlockite on orange bladed montgomeryite, it partially coated by white balls of fluorapatite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the...
A brown partially melted hexagonal apatite crystal with a hollow centre. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single hexagonal yellowish apatite crystal perched on albite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice cluster of zoned tabular hexagonal fluorapatite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 22mm. Stack of 17 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A coated hexagonal prism of fluorapatite from the Pyramid Hill granite Quarry, Victoria. Not as pretty as the Lake Boga ones. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for...
Hair-like colourless crystals of fluorapatite. Also present, white millisite on blocky wardite crystals, and green kidwellite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Brian Beyer at the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar for $1.00. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 60 images.
Greyish-yellow monazite with yellow-orange anatase, colourless quartz and white apatite. The apatite fluoresces a pinkish white. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp black prismatic pseudobrookite, colourless hexagonal nepheline, white fluorapatite, brownish biotite, single reddish rhonite. Width 2.77mm. Stack of 16 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Fluorapatite crystal is repaired in three places. It is not fluorescent, but the glue used is. The calcite matrix fluoresces pink. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Erwin Schuhbauer Collection, Helmut Braith
Ex Ian Graham. Ex John Lewis Collection.,
Purple hexagonal apatite crystals on a pale smoky quartz with tourmaline inclusions and minor pyrite.
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Green sprays of dioptase with white apatite. This mine not mentioned in this district in Mindat (Jan 2015).
Schorl inclusion in apatite, no matrix. Collected by Margaret Brown 19/3/1996
Christmas Island phosphate minerals reference.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Single iron-stained fluorapatite with three small albite crystals, sitting on orthoclase
Small dark green crystals
