Fluorapatite

Excellent rich deep leaf green tabular hexagonal crystals of Fluorapatite, measuring to almost 2 cm, are pleasingly distributed around the rim of a white Albite cavity and scattered over further areas of this large miniature.  The hexagonal crystals display sharp bevelled edges between the prism and pinacoid and have transparent to translucent outer zones which grade toward mossy dark green opaque centres.  A most attractive example from the Sapo mine which works a pegmatite body in the Conselheiro Pena municipality of Brazil.