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RF66L9: This sample is a rarity. A very curious combination in one piece of green and blue to violet Fluorapatite crystals. With some slight pyramidal faces less transparent than the prism faces. Crystals are on a matrix. The piece is accompanied by a handwritten label from the Folch collection.
Minas da Panasqueira, level 2, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro Region Portugal
Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.8 × 2.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.89” × 0.91”
Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.51” × 0.51”
With handwritten note from the Folch Collection (duplicates) Intense zoned fluorescence long & short UV
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