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NQ6AL5: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: Group of elongated Fluorapatite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, of a color between pale yellow and violet with zoning that forms white geometric bands in the terminal areas, with small leafy aggregates of Muscovite and lamellar Chlorite coatings . The specimen, completely different from those known so far from 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: 4.4 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.73” × 0.94” × 0.91”
Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.24”
Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
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