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Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - This mass of crystalline muscovite is host to several crystals of apatite to 1 cm across. No damage at all ! Overall size is 5.5 x 4.0 x 2.0 cm
Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan - A grouping of apatite crystals is nestled within a couple of blocky orthoclase crystals with good terminations and crystal faces. The apatites are up to 1.4-1.5 cm in size ! The apatite crystals are a glassy grey colour and appear to have very small bubbles just below the crystal faces. Overall size is 4.1 × 4.1 × 2.5 cm
Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - A large single glassy two colour green apatite crystals with discs of siderite formed over an arsenopyrite/wolframite/cassiterite matrix. The apatite is 1.5x1 cm in size ! Veri nice and bright ! Overall size is 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.8 cm.
Niaslo, Basha Valley, Skardu District, Northern Areas, Pakistan - Nice specimen with several pinkish grey apatite crystals on hematite matrix. The crystals are up to 1.3 cm. Overall size is 4.3 × 2.7 × 1.8 cm.
Panasqueria Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - This specimen of muscovite is host to a group of color zoned crystals of apatite. This inky blue color is rare from Panasqueira. All but one of the crystals are complete. The back crystal is on the edge of the specimen and is about 80% complete. Overall size is 6.5x5.0x4.6 cm. Ex Luis Miguel Fernandez Burillo collection
Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - Golden brown siderite crystals are stacked atop two tones apatite crystals and a bed of shiny muscovite. Overall size is 4.8x3.1x2.4 cm
Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - The whole specimn is composed by crystalline ferberite ! The ferberites are up to 1-1.5 cm and there are several cluster of siderite alla around and some millimetric apatite. Overall size is 4.5x4.5x2.5 cm
Cerro de Mercado, S. Eulalia, Mexico - Several apatites are partly emerging from quartz coating. Bright yellow color. The apatites are up to 1.5-2 cm in size. Nice for the locality. Overall size is 5.5x5x2.7 cm
Gilgit, Pakistan - Esthetic specimen hosting 3 terminated tourmalines up to the size of 5 cm ! all of them show a green termination and are biterminated. The termination of one of them can be seen through the waterclear color of a quartz crystal. There are alsoquartz, lepidolite/clevelandite books and hesagonal apatite crystals ! nice specimen of 5.5x3x2.5 cm.