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Fluorapatite from
Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Comments:"Primary fluorapatite occurs as pale blue, glassy, interstitial patches and rare crystals a few mm across and as ragged etched fragments less than 1mm across in some cavities in the Wycheproof pegmatites. The etched fluorapatite occurs with powdery and spongy aggregates of cyrilovite, quartz and muscovite. In a few cavities, secondary hydrothermal apatite occurs as spherical aggregates, up to 1mm across, consisting of radiating colourless fibrous crystals."
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:92975
Long-form Identifier:1:3:92975:0
GUID (UUID V4):b72acf92-8dd3-4fab-b7c9-52eef2a8b4bf
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
66.2km (41.1 miles) Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia
81.7km (50.7 miles) Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson's Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia
92.1km (57.2 miles) Tallangatta pegmatite, Tallangatta, Towong Shire, Victoria, Australia
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...weathering in the Murray 230 Basin, southeastern Australia: evidence from Th/U dating of secondary uranium...uranium phosphates in the Lake Boga and Wycheproof granites, Victoria a W. D. Birch , S. J. Mills a a b...c Geosciences, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia b Department of Earth...Sciences, University of Melbourne, Vic, 3010, Australia Published online: 27 Sep 2011. To cite this article:
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PHOSPHATE MINERALS OF VICTORIA W. D. Birch and D. A. Henry Editors Special photography by Francesco...Francesco Coffa THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 3. 7 Printed by McPherson's...Society of Victoria Inc. P.O. Box 12162, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne. Victoria. 3000 Australia (Tel. (03)...(03) 669 9892). National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 9594573 2 1 In this series: Special...Zeolites of Victoria. W. D. Birch (Editor). Copyright 1993. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria Inc. 11
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...tandfonline.com/loi/taje20 Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology...3010, Australia b Geosciences , Museum Victoria , GPO Box 666E, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia Published...Phillips & I. R. Plimer (2008) Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 55:3, 281-299, DOI: 10.1080/08120090701769449
 
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