Apatite
Oak-saung-taung, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
The best of the gem fluorapatite crystals from Myanmar have a very distinct denim blue color, and this 6.5 cm example is one of the longer ones found in the relatively small deposits in Mogok Valley, from a few finds in the late 1990s brought out by Bill Larson. This is one of the few he held back, all these years, in his personal collection of ...
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