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NM6AL5: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated Fluorapatite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, pale yellow to violet in color with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, with leafy aggregates of Muscovite and little Chlorite coatings. The specimen, completely different from those known so far from Panasqueira, comes from a small vug that produced few specimens.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Region Portugal (02/2020)
Specimen size: 3.9 × 2 × 2 cm = 1.54” × 0.79” × 0.79”
Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.28”
Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
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