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Fluorapatite from
Real quarry, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz7 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Orthoclase5 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Orthoclase at this locality.
Feldspar Group3 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Bertrandite3 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Bertrandite at this locality.
Cleavelandite2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Muscovite1 photo of Fluorapatite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Real quarry, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
Photo GalleryView Gallery (50 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:271947
Long-form Identifier:1:3:271947:4
GUID (UUID V4):466e82c9-9aa6-476b-8458-7de4b4beef3a
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Nossa Senhora da Esperança quarry, Quintela de Azurara, Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
3.1km (1.9 miles) Corvaceira quarry, Castelo de Penalva, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu, Portugal
6.0km (3.7 miles) Cova da Raposa Mine, Tavares (Chãs; Várzea e Travanca), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
6.3km (3.9 miles) Bom Sucesso No. 4 quarry, Tavares (Chãs; Várzea e Travanca), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
7.6km (4.7 miles) Regada, Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde area, Mangualde (Mesquitela e Cunha Alta), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
7.9km (4.9 miles) Chão do Castanheiro, Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde area, Mangualde (Mesquitela e Cunha Alta), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
9.3km (5.8 miles) Unnamed pegmatite, São Cosmado, Mangualde (Mesquitela e Cunha Alta), Mangualde, Viseu, Portugal
12.4km (7.7 miles) Romãs quarry, U.F Romãs Decermilo e Vila Longa, Sátão, Viseu, Portugal
14.9km (9.3 miles) Curval Mine, U.F Romãs Decermilo e Vila Longa, Sátão, Viseu, Portugal
15.6km (9.7 miles) Fonte Limeira quarry, U.F Romãs Decermilo e Vila Longa, Sátão, Viseu, Portugal
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite in the United States (Wilson 1977; Francis and...many others, another of North America’s finest fluorapatite specimens. It is from a locality, however, that...worldwide, the Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
didn’t have gold, he left with a better idea of what real gold is and how to determine it in the field. Let’s...muscovite with albite, 2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This...Newry (King and Foord 1994). The Black Mountain quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, was one of the biggest...fine transparent, gold-brown color. The BB No. 7 quarry in Norway, also in Oxford County, has produced...beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry, Chatham, Carroll
Report (issue)
The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA...(Damour 1856; Rammelsberg 1860): 4 APATITE fluorapatite, hydroxylapatite, and chlorapatite. Their ideal...of the colors and luminescent properties of fluorapatite. STRUCTURE As with all mineral groups, the...Correze, France Fluorapatite, 3 cm tall; Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Fluorapatite in Calcite; Liscombe...apatite specimens in mineral collections are fluorapatite. Mineralogy 5 CRYSTALS The symmetry of most
Journal (issue)
that required four days of travel down the Serra do Rio do Rastro, and two days on horseback. On the route...Álvaro himself). His collection was wonderful—a real treat to behold. He had a coffee table with a sliding...magnesite from Brumado, excellent specimens of pink fluorapatite and siderite (also from Morro Velho), magnificent...quartz (amethyst), andalusite, fluorite and fluorapatite. INTRODUCTION BY CARLOS CORNEJO The exploration...gave rise to villages, and ports such as Figueira do Rio Doce, established for the exchange of goods.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(right). Fluorapatite with quartz, 9 cm wide, from level 2, Panasqueira mines, Beira Baixa, Portugal. Jeff...(above). Dolomite, 5.6 cm wide, from the Azkarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain; mined 2002. Jeff Scovil...from level 2, Panasqueira Mines, Beira Baixa, Portugal; mined ca. 1995. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 15...collection— which is focused geographically on Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and, to a lesser degree, France—is a...(below). Fluorapatite with siderite, 5 cm high, from level 2, Panasqueira Mines, Beira Baixa, Portugal; mined
Report (issue)
Gatas mine group, Sabroda, Vila Real district, Norte Region, Portugal. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo...through with some new and beautiful fluorite from Portugal—not from Panasqueira (although he has that, too)...in the Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, Norte Region. These seven fluorite specimens...pseudomorphs are all available from Jordi. Fluorapatite on cookeite pseudomorph after spodumene, 4.2...short-prismatic, colorless and transparent crystals of fluorapatite sticking out everywhichway from a brown cookeite
Journal (issue)
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2020 Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............celestine, 8 cm (see page 672), from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio. Daniel Trinchillo...trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and Russell’s mineral collection...or vice versa. To our knowledge, Android devices do not have anything like the Apple iBooks app, so you...computer using a USB cable. Then all you have to do is drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste the pdf into the
Journal (issue)
has yielded fine specimens of euclase and pink fluorapatite. This mine, in the Pauna municipality of Boyaca...mines. Pizarro, in particular, made many efforts to do so-but the first such find did not take place until...anvil and hitting it with a hammer to see if it was real, destroy[ing] forever many fine stones" (Bancroft...account brings us close again to a realm of shadows (as do other melodramatic accounts, not repeated here, from...Seville, and the rule of the "royal fifth" (quinto real) was established: one-fifth of the emeralds would
Journal (issue)
RALS AND GEMS In Great Variety, Collected in Colora do, for Sa le at . 1539 BROADWAY DENVER N o . 245...of independent means thanks to his inheritance, real estate holdings and stock market investrnents, Cahn...11 1c, 400 S.; VM t :r.11t ~ Df:.N:ZR, COLOFU.\DO 0101 ~ J /t:) , August Petro Pohndorf (1866-1939)...WOLFRAMITE & ARSENOPYRITE Minas de Panasquiera, Portugal $ 450.00 3088 Location: Pri ce: CRYSTAL GALLERY...experienced the world of mineral collecting. My first real interaction with minerals was at Bill Micol's Nature
Journal (issue)
Chairman stopped by and John asked him if he could do microprobe work for UBC—and maybe some for himself...illustrated in his 1972 article on the Fairfax quarry in the Mineralogical Record, and on page 255 of...time gave them the opportunity to discuss what to do with their extra specimens, ultimately concluding...Because John had a full-time job, he wasn’t able to do much of the digging, but he came out when he could...favorite collecting spots was the famous Auglaize quarry in Paulding County, Ohio. He kept meticulous records
Book (edition)
with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...dolerite on Monte Redondo, 160 km N of Lisbon, Portugal. Columnar aggregates in ultrabasic rocks at Smrcina...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}...mineral of alkaline rocks in the Point of Rocks quarry, Colfax co., New Mexico, with aegirine and arfvedsonite
Journal (issue)
Manuel Bettencourt Dias Matos Lima 8100-308 Louie, Portugal Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical Record 4631...since the country gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, malaria and other tropical diseases which...convicts serving sentences for crimes committed in Portugal. Many of these convicts saw their sentences pardoned...the Muiane, which was operated by Empresa Miniera do Alto Ligonha, and which has produced many collector...others. In April of 1974 a revolution took place in Portugal, led by Marxist-leaning elements of the military
Journal (issue)
photo. Bottom row, from left: Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine...Scovil photo. Sulfur, 11.1 cm, from the Scofield quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan. Robert Mosley...November–December, 2020 25 Tom & Melissa Campbell Fluorapatite on tantalite-(Fe), 6 cm, from the Shigar Valley...Guaratinga, Bahia, Brazil. Beth Van Allen photo. Fluorapatite on albite with elbaite, 6.9 cm, from the Golconda...and muscovite, 3.5 cm, from Santana do Encoberto, São Sebastião do Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Ex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granite, emplaced in the metamorphic rocks of the Serra do Mar, SE Brazil. The nepheline syenites are characterized...accessory phases and are found with allanite, fluorapatite, fluorite, zircon, thorite, yttrialite, zirconolite...syenitic/ trachytic/ phonolitic complexes of the Serra do Mar and elsewhere. K E Y WO R D S : nepheline syenites...map of the Itatiaia intrusion [modified after Penalva (1967) and Brotzu et al. (1997)] with location...The igneous rocks of the Alto Paranaíba and Serra do Mar have compositions ranging from strongly ultrabasic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mechanisms. Complex diagrams such as R1 + R2 versus R3 do not enable a proper investigation of the compositional...evolution in the X-site and W-site and oversimplify the real substitutions. As a consequence the use of specific...spessartine (Mn), albite (Na), orthoclase (K), fluorapatite (P, F) and gahnite (Zn). Additional measurements...which may resemble nodules in hand specimen, but they do not exhibit a leucocratic halo and the tourmaline...subordinate amounts of plagioclase, K-feldspar, and fluorapatite. Anhedral to subhedral tourmaline (Fig. 2d)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
containing sphene in minute golden xls, needle fluorapatite, datolite, apophyllite, byssolite, hornblende...babingtonite xls from the New Haven Traprock Co. quarry on the Wallingford-Durham Rd. in Conn., supplied...Bill Baldwin; apophyllite on scolecite, Rio Grande do Sur, Brazil, from Obodda of Romanella; bergenite...from Morocco; and a new one to us — nigerite from Portugal. This is one of the most satisfying aspects of...Dana for identification and comparison purposes. Do you know any one who has such minerals as laubmannite
Journal (issue)
Allen, J. C. Blankenship and W. B. Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South...COVER: APOPHYLLITE recently collected at the Pashan quarry, Poona, India. The crystal cluster is 6 cm from...causing physical discontinuities —discontinuities which do not delineate distinct compositional changes. In...reported by Pemberton (1983) from the Crestmore quarry, Riverside County, California. Richard C. Erd (personal...(Zangerl and Richardson, 1963). Like the Mecca quarry shale of Zangerl and Richardson (1963), the Excello
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
35% muscovite with very minor schorl and green fluorapatite. Some of the muscovite occurs as typical tan...Type I1 elbaite (to 1 by 0.2 cm) f;om the Harvard quarry can be thickly clustered in muscovite contorted...be found in contorted muscovite at the Greenlaw quarry, Auburn. REFERENCE King, V. T. 1991. Tourmaline...will be (010). The mineral arsenopyrite provides a real example. The description given by Palache, Berman...Russia. It was recently discovered at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire (MSH), Quebec, and was temporarily
Report (issue)
Asmus, H.E., eds., Geologia do Brasil; texto explicativo do mapa geológico do Brasil e da área oceânica...Principais depósitos minerais do Brasil, Volume II—Ferro e metais da indústria do aço: Brazil Departamento...Principais depósitos minerais do Brasil, Volume II—Ferro e metais da indústria do aço: Brazil Departamento... Carbonatite Cretaceous 33 Angola Uige Pedra do Feitico Marine chemical sediment Late CretaceousEarly... chert, 85 carbonate Montejinni Limestone fluorapatite, wavellite, millisite, dufrenite, specular hematite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spectra were measured on a synthetic and a natural fluorapatite sample. A modeling approach based on the computation...of the samples were related to those of pure fluorapatite using an effective medium approach, based on...experimental data recorded on the synthetic fluorapatite sample. The poorer agreement observed on the...ATR infrared spectra of selected samples of fluorapatite. Apatite is a widespread calcium phosphate mineral...of sedimentary deposits of carbonate-bearing fluorapatite (Knudsen and Gunter 2002), while carbonate-bearing
Show/Event (guide)
lecture about the huge beryl crystals at the Bumpus Quarry, he was hooked. Tonight, John will dispel some...mineral photographer, Jeff Scovil, has agreed to do a retrospective of the past 17 years (about half...200,000+ mineral collectors in the U.S., then why do only 7,000+ subscribe to The Mineralogical Record...spiffy blues guitar, which has absolutely nothing to do with scoundrels.) This morning, Mick is going to...the surface features of minerals in some detail. To do so, I am working with a technique I call mosaic macro-photography
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
da Cova Coalfield, Douro Carboniferous Basin, Portugal: Insights from Inorganic Geochemistry Mariana...da Cova Coalfield, Douro Carboniferous Basin, Portugal: Insights from Inorganic Geochemistry. Minerals...Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687...687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal; up201201358@edu.fc.up.pt (M.C.); adelmar@fc.up.pt (A.P.d.J.) Instituto...Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal; helenaromoura@gmail.com
Show/Event (guide)
sulky teenagers and get them so turned on, it’s got real potential! — Salim Eddé All captions were written...must expect a return on this investment”. Indeed I do, as there is no such thing as a free lunch in this...on seeing them in person. James Elliott photo N DO N Fluorite. Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Kanton...imagining such a piece is a chimera, but no, it is real, and it is in the mim. The quality of the crystal...Mountains, Cochise County, Catapleite. Poudrette Quarry, Mont Arizona , USA. 14 x 13.5 x 6.5 cm, mim specSaint-Hilaire
Journal (issue)
rocks, but the latter do not seem to be present in specimens actually dug from a quarry or prospect. Of course...species have actually been observed from the specific quarry and, therefore, the various minerals came from...these stories after hearing them, bllf this I cannot do. (Continues on page 4) Mineral News ----2 Newry...Similarly. pollucite is listed only for the Dunton Quarry, as it probabl) has been found only at that locality...1975. 1980). The Dunton Pegmatite hosts the Dunton Quarry. The Crooker Pegmatite hosts the Crooker Prospect
Catalog/List
other lots I will need to use a separate bid sheet. Do you want to receive an email, text message, or fax...cut bid). Any podium, fax, phone or mail bids that do not conform to a full or half increment will be rounded...avenues by which bids may be submitted, there is the real possibility of a tie for the high bid. In the event...2013 | 12:00 PM CT   11 53006 CALCITE Dhindori Quarry, Jalgaon, Dindori (Dhindori), Nashik District (Nasik...of which begs the question: “And just how did it do that?” Answering that question is not a prerequisite
 
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