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NF76AL5: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated pale yellow to violet Fluorapatite crystals with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, on a transparent Quartz crystal with small leafy aggregates of Muscovite. The specimen, completely different from what had been known so far in Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few pieces.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Region Portugal (02/2020)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 0.79”
Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.24”
Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
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