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Fluorapatite from
Mosquito Mountain Granite Quarry, Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Comments:Microscopic in rock, no good crystals.
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mosquito Mountain Granite Quarry, Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:524980
Long-form Identifier:1:3:524980:0
GUID (UUID V4):ea95408b-d903-43ee-934d-25262ca69bf5
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
40.0km (24.8 miles) Long Island, Blue Hill, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock County, Maine, USA
50.5km (31.4 miles) Mount Desert Township, Hancock County, Maine, USA
61.3km (38.1 miles) Starrett Quarries, Warren, Knox County, Maine, USA
62.5km (38.8 miles) Catherine Mountain Molybdenite prospect, Catherine Mountain, Hancock County, Maine, USA
92.9km (57.7 miles) Dennis Hill locality (Litchfield sodalite locality), Litchfield, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
94.1km (58.5 miles) Dennis Hill albitite, Litchfield, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
99.3km (61.7 miles) Katahdin Iron Works Mine, Katahdin Iron Works, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
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Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
 
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