gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...of albite, calcite, epidote, muscovite, quartz, titanite, chabazite, and stilbite. Another important occurrence...from Sludyanka, near Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia (Belakovskiy 2013); and Mt. Xuebaoding, Sichuan...Sweden. This is home to two of the most important iron deposits on the globe, Kiirunavaara and Malmberget...Malmberget, which contribute about 90 percent of the iron-ore production in Europe. Both of these deposits are |