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Fluorapatite from
Northeast slope, Kukisvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia


Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Northeast slope, Kukisvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:989555
Long-form Identifier:1:3:989555:3
GUID (UUID V4):53313a1f-2077-4484-bcae-5d99d9e04e31
References
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Book
known in 1887 as the Yale Farm, about two miles northeast of the town of Litchfield, where a mass of white...magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain, 1982), with ilmenite...near the Portuguese coast about 155 km north-northeast of Lisbon, is now closed and flooded, but produced...during the 1970s (see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite was found...Maderanertal drainage flows west-southwest from a mountain massif to join the Reuss River at the town of Amsteg,
Book (volume)
permission of the publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen)...1978), and the world champion The Lovozero Alkali Massif (Vlasov et al., I 966). The philosophy for the...smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has perhaps as many as 15-20%...and superior to any from Madagascar, Afghanistan, Russia, or Brazil. Certainly, only the best Maine gemstones... and Es'kova, E. M., 1966, The Lovozero alkali massif, translated by D. G. Fry and K. Syers; edited by
Journal (issue)
River from the northeast. Krantzberg Mountain stands out as the brown peak to the northeast. The thin, black...cassiterite August 2000 First discovery of fluorapatite and first large pocket of colorless beryl August...Cassiterite Large K-feldspar crystals; apple-green fluorapatite Frommurze et al. (1942); Wagner (1916) Drews...ferrotantalite Schorl; zinnwaldite; garnet; fluorapatite; muscovite; pink albite in vugs; purple fluorite...Mountains on Ameib 60, looking northwest. The granite slope in the middle distance produced cassiterite specimens
Book (edition)
mineral identification. The writer wishes to thank Mt-. Dana c. Douglass (Douglass Mining Co., Bethel)...:partings intersecting on cleavage at 60° . Dip - slope downward from a horizontal surface ; perpendicular..." PA I NT M 1 N€ \ RUMFOR \ '' � !> RWD �,u. Mt 11 • ASI> MILL A " \ WMITtfl,IA\.L P"OS PECf ...M I LTO N / � �/\ \ \ \ < 'A \, / _.. _y' MT. �"ICO III uso· \ PERU • • · · ·s �•· • •r•... EL '-.-- { \' �( \\ \ \ \ Not,TN l\liN MT,c. \ ' \ .+t ff , A 6 �/ ,�� -J.\.1Y .,
Journal (issue)
The Tourmaline Queen mine, located on the northeast slope of Queen Mountain in San Diego County, California...quartz, sphalerite, galena, hübnerite, bornite, fluorapatite and chalcopyrite. Many of the most outstanding...Mineralogical Record, volume 39, May–June, 2008 Fluorapatite and Associated Minerals from the Pulsifer Quarry...near Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine. Purple fluorapatite was first collected in the district around 1881...purple” fluorapatites. Discoveries of purple fluorapatite continued to be made there until Pulsifer ceased
Journal (issue)
June, 1994. Jesse Fisher photo. Figure 11. Fluorapatite and schorl, 8.2 cm high, from the Blue Lady...Mine The patented Ware mine is located on the northeast side of the ridge, near its crest, and exploits...mine, a patented claim located low on the southern slope of Queen Mountain. The Stewart dike is a very large...rare. Tourmaline Queen Mine Located on the northeast slope near the summit of Queen Mountain, the patented...[46] North End, [47] Goddess, [48] Snipe, [49] Big Slope, [50] Little Chief, [51] Cliff. Chief Mountain
Report (volume)
(var. sapphire), diopside, epidote, essonite, .fluorapatite, garnet, graphite, hematite, magnetite, muscovite...Creek. Locality 8.-Deadmans Canyon pegmatite. Fluorapatite, muscovite, triplite. This pegmatite deposit...is 4¥2 miles northwest of Colorado Springs and northeast of Manitou. Locality 5.-St. Peters Dome. Amazonstone... chalcocite, chlorite, columbite-tantalite, fluorapatite, garnet (spessartite), lepidolite, monazite... Columbite-tantalite, cordierite, euxenite, fluorapatite, kyanite, microcline, monazite, muscovite, scheelite
Report (issue)
Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 49 Gem Beryl from Russia and Ukraine Peter Lyckberg Friedrich August Breithaupt's...United States; Canada (page 40); pegmatites in Russia and the Ukraine (page 49); as well as numerous...with granitic rocks, especially in the central massif of Switzerland (Rotondo granite and Fibbia granite­...Crippa of Giubiasco. In September 1992, on the northeast flank of the Fibbia, in the uppermost Tremola...root, and the beryls have been distributed down-slope from the weathered pocket by tree roots and frost
Book
to the northwest, the names K\anefjeld and Taseq Slope (Fig. 7) are equally familiar, but have not been...middle background, Kvanefjeld (left) and the Taseq Slope (right) (H. S0rensen photo). 8 '.,l l';Llli\L...pipe may be a small apophysis off a larger granite massif. An intrusion breccia, up to 75 m wide, consisting...stretched 150 m through the deposit in a southwest-northeast direction directly underneath the siderite-cryolite...Narssarssuk, Greenland, Kola Peninsula and Polar Urals, Russia; ancylite-lCe) - calcio-ancylite-(Ce) an isomorphous
Report (issue)
_________________________________________ 18 5. Section northeast of gully B, showing complex relations of uncompahgrite...Mesa, which borders the Iron Hill basin on the northeast, and remnants of the Potosi volcanic rocks, mostly...Deldorado Gulch, on the banks of Cebolla Creek northeast of the Hot Springs, and elsewhere. These rocks...across is exposed by a prospect pit on the south slope of Sammons Gulch, just below the crest and about...veins.—On the southwest slope of Iron Hill the marble is cut by several northeast-southwest veins, as much
Journal (issue)
street of Ouray en route to Telluride by way of the Mt. Sneffels range. Cloudless weather, not unusual after...and boxes of dynamite destined for a small mine on Mt. Potosi; these, with bulky packages that hid their...the hills where Ouray lay concealed; in the far northeast the dark mass of the Uncompahgre plateau loomed...foothills, out of which arose the sculptured mass of Mt. Wilson, silhouetted against the setting sun, and...rushing mass will not stop at the bottom of the slope, but its momentum will carry it The Mineralogical
Book
gold have come from the Monumental District, northeast of Crescent City, and from the black sands on...Clark, 1970a. 2-10. Geologic of District, northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. MINERALS...in the southern Sierra Nevada, about 32 miles northeast of Bakersfield. Gold was discovered here 1852...southern end of the Mother Lode Belt. The At. Mt. Ophir are the remains of an early mint; from 1849...county; Nevada City District adjoins it on the northeast. After Johnson, 1940; Lindgren, 1896a; W. B. Clark
Book (edition)
small cavities in "gummite" at Margnac, in the Massif Central, France. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Cesbron...near Hiaco, about 24 km east northeast of Colquechaca on the eastern slope of the Central Cordillera, Bolivia...and in quartz veins associated with ferberite at Mt. Misobo, Kalima district, Zaire, and also at Ruanda...Carbonate-apatite Chlorapatite Ellestadi te Fermorite Fluorapatite Hedyphane Hydroxylapatite Hydroxylellestadite...from seams jn granitic rock at the Daybreak mine , Mt. Spokane, Washington; also found widespread in s1nall
Book
gold have come from the Monu1nental District, northeast of Crescent City, and from the black sands on...Bernudino Counties. The district is 40 miles northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. The western...in the southern Sierra Nevada, about 32 miles northeast of Bakersfield. Gold was discovered here in 1852...near the southern end of the Mother Lode Belt. At. Mt. Ophir are the remains of an early mint; from 1849...county; Nevada City District adjoins it on the northeast. After Johnson, 1940; Lindgren, 1896a; W. B. Clark
Report (issue)
been mined in Mineral County, about 65 miles northeast of the Randolph County occurrence (Waage, 1950...well-sorted, fine-sandsize pellets of carbonate fluorapatite cemented by calcite or quartz and minor clay...simple. The phosphate mineral is a carbonate fluorapatite, and is present as a major mineral phase in...carbonate fluorapatite. The samples contain an excess of fluorine and C02. In the carbonate fluorapatite, (...hemisphere. of 33.5 o and 52.5 o indicate that the slope of the curves (fig. 5) becomes less with. higher
Report (issue)
rer Gikid au?) 4D tO PAR. a ni bey taihiicqad iP mT Step ewale 6 jsetull bed ws0) ee z0r @ Meme ». Hei...reported the presence of steph- about 100 miles northeast of Virginia City near anite, free gold, and native...Augusta and Cold Spring; northwest, Ravenswood; northeast, Cortez; southeast, Jefferson and others; east...colemanite were discovered in the Muddy Mountains northeast of Las Vegas in the early 1920s and were considered...hydrate) of great purity was discovered on the west slope of Paradise Mountains, in Nye County, 30 miles north
Book (volume)
form . An emerald crystal . Turner Emerald Mine . Mt. Antero aquamarine matrix specimen . Mesa Grande...Large single tourmaline crystal from Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline...Branch, 13 miles northeast of Gainesville in Hall County; also at a place 11 miles northeast of Macon in Twiggs...including a crystal of 3.06 carats from Salt Creek in northeast Brown County and a minute specimen found in Gold...shore of Stoney Lake and extends further to the northeast. Similar material from the large commercial deposit
Report (issue)
Julian district, and Elslnore fault view of west slope of Palomar Mountain, along trace of Elsinore fault...view of Beauty Mountain and Pawnee tungsten mine northeast of Oak Grove .... Aerial oblique view of Pawnee...view of part of Circle group vermiculite deposit northeast of Jacumba Main workings of Circle group deposit...Peninsular Range province underlie skyline. Linda Black Mt. Vista Meso is underl am Foothills of San...Mountain (3,675 feet), which is about 7 miles northeast of Lakeside. Difference in elevation between top
Report (issue)
Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey. The northeast-trending subparallel valleys and ridges resulted...and Warren County, New Jersey (fig. 1). The northeast-trending subparallel valleys and ridges are the...of Engineers in the Bushkill quadrangle to the northeast. Large areas of the Martinsburg Formation as...abandoned Peters slate quarry, 5*000 feet north-northeast of VJalnutport, Palir.erton quadrangle, Northampton...siltstone. It forms a cliff face along the south slope of Blue and Kittatinny Mountains. The Minsi Member
Book
exceptions, are not well defined. Samples along a northeast to southwest line passing from the southwestern...samples high in feldspar. With respect to the northeast-southwest line just mentioned, roundness of Pensauken...I-514-B, Sheet 2, in Engineer¬ ing geology of the northeast corridor Washington, D. C., to Boston, Massachusetts:...proposed the northern part of the state in a northeast-south¬ the names Pochuck, Losee and Byram in...albite-oligoclase, quartz and hornblende. In a northeast-southwest trending central belt of the High¬ lands
Report (issue)
small mass of 3.5 kilograms, discovered in 1927 near Mt. Elden, is an intergrowth of nickel-iron and graphite...decompOSItIon of pynte, on the Surprise gold claim northeast of Morristown. . Pinal County-Two and one half...Maricopa County-From the Papago Indian Reservation, northeast of Casa Grande. Mohave County-Grand Wash Cliffs...Willcox. . Maricopa County-Pike's Peak area, northeast of Beardsley, replacements in schist. . Navajo...the Aguila district. On Castle Creek, 23 miles northeast of Morristown. At the Burmeister property, 14
Report (volume)
on Natural Zeolites, Brockport, NY, p 173-185 Dove MT, Cool T, Palmer DC, Putnis A, Salje EK.H, Winkler...(1995) Boggsite and tschernichite-type zeolites from Mt. Adamson, Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica). Eur...206-207 Sani A, Vezzalini G, Ciambelli P, Rapacciuolo MT (1999) Crystal structure of hydrated and partially...native copper (Boggs et al. 1993); and the other at Mt. Adamson, Antarctica, in vugs of basalt, rarely associated...pit, Goble, Oregon (Howard et al. 1990), and from Mt. Adamson, Antarctica (Galli et al. 1995). It occurs
Report (issue)
which was mined by aboriginal tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in prehistoric...Madera County; Fish Creek Mountain, Fresno County northeast of Cloverdale, Sonoma County; near Burnt Ranch...precipitous mountain ridge, we looked down the opposite slope, equally steep, on a small muddy lake that sent..."Geology of the quicksilver deposits, of the Pacific Slope" geological career sity in of California and...this mineral in Riverside County, on the southeast slope of Thomas Mountain. These colored tourmalines, now
Report (issue)
straight line segments, each of which differs in slope from the adjacent segments. These differences are...thickness of more than 900 feet are present on the northeast slope of the mountain where it is cut by Chukar Canyon...evident (fig. 2). Love ( 1956a). Strata along the northeast flank dip 5° to 10° northCretaceous rocks younger...east. tion are extensively exposed along the northeast flank Normal faults cut the crest of the uplift...25-41; Love, 1H56a, p. 79- trend of the faults is northeast, but a secondary set 83). Along the southwest
Book
remarkable crystals of feldspar, ferrocolumbite, fluorapatite and fluorite, and a stroll along the beach at...varying amounts of calcite. collophane (carbonate-fluorapatite), kaolinite and quartz. Major opencast mines...the Great Lode that anglesite was first found. Northeast England evaporite deposits Boulby mine. Loftus...Cu-Pb-Zn-rich Yeinswith different secondary assemblages. Northeast Wales orefield The lead-zinc-{barite-fluorite)-eoriched...nonhwest and south flanks of the Lake District Massif. There are three type:, of dcpo!>its:flats - t
 
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