Schorl with Fluorapatite, Albite
specimen number:
1604281
location:
Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
description:
A lustrous thick sharp black crystal of schorl, this is associated attractively with colorless bladed crystals of albite and several tabular colorless crystals of fluorapatite. Complete all around and in great condition. The fluorapatite crystals are incredibly fluorescent yellow under longwave ultraviolet light.
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