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TR49Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of prismatic Fluorapatite crystals with a dominant prism and complex terminations, very rich with crystalline forms. They are translucent, extraordinarily bright and are with small Tourmaline crystals. The color, clearly pink in daylight, acquires brownish shades under electric lightning. The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph "Golconda!" of the Mineralogical Record magazine on page 619 in the volume 50, number 5, September-October 2019
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais Brazil (11/2013)
Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.26” × 1.06”
Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87”
Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
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