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Page 2: New minerals from the Panasqueira mines, November 2022
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BT23 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Attractive group of Fluorapatite crystals with very well defined shapes. They have an intense green
color and high brilliance. With Pyrite and Siderite. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 5 cm
Price: 170€ Available
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BT24 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of Fluorapatite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They have a nice green
color and high brilliance. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4.5 cm
Price: 160€ Available
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BT25 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Well formed prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite with a very nice color between lilac and blue. On matrix with Quartz crystals and Muscovite. The condition is excellent. This kind of Fluorpatites are very scarce and the most sought-after by the most demanding Panasqueira collectors.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 6 cm
Price: 490€ Available
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BT26 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of flattened prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite, transparent and with a light green color. On matrix of Muscovite.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 3.5 cm
Not available
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BT27 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of crystals of Fluorapatites with well defined faces and edges, an intense green color and bright. The crystals present color zoning.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 2.5 cm
Price: 60€ Available
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BT28 - Cassiterite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Main lustrous crystal of Cassiterite on matrix. Accompanied by other very bright smaller crystals.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 4.5 cm
Price: 95€ Available
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BT29 - Fluorapatite with Siderite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Cute Panasqueira specimen. Group of Fluorapatite crystals, with a nice color zoning, settled on a matrix of Muscovite with brown Siderite crystals.
In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 4 cm x 2.5 cm
Not available
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BT30 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Flattened prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite with a nice green color and good luster and transparency. On matrix with Muscovite and Quartz. In
excellent condition.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
Not available
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BT31 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of Fluorapatite crystals with well defined faces and edges and nice green color. With Muscovite.
Specimen size: 4.5cm x 3 cm
Not available
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BT32 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Nice Fluorapatite composed of prismatic crystals with well defined faces and edges, nice green color, good luster... on matrix of Muscovite. No
damage.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 5.5 cm
Not available
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BT33 - Arsenopyrite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of lustrous Arsenopyrite crystals with very defined shapes. Aesthetic specimen.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4.5 cm
Not available
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BT34 - Fluorapatite with Marcasite.
Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco,
Portugal.
Group of light blue Fluorapatite crystals with very good brilliance disposed on Sphalerite matrix with Marcasite and Pyrite. In excellent condition.
Better in person.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 6.5 cm
Not available
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BT35 - Fluorapatite with Quartz. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Main prismatic crystal of Fluropapatite, with intense green color, very bright and transparent. On matrix and accompanied by a transparent crystal of Quartz.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
Not available
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BT36- Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of flattened crystals of Fluorapatite with an unusual color between yellow and brown and disposed on matrix and with well formed Siderite crystals on the back. In very good condition.
Specimen size: 7.5 cm x 4 cm
Not available
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BT37 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of crystals of Fluorapatite with a nice green color, very good brilliance and transparency. On matrix with Calcite. The condition is excellent-
Specimen size: 11.5 cm x 6 cm
Not available
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BT38 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Transparent green crystals on Fluorapatite accompanied by needles of Tourmaline Schorl. The condition is very good.
Specimen size: 8.5 cm x 6 cm
Not available
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BT39 - Pyrite with Calcite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Unusual Panasqueira specimen composed of an aggregate of lustrous crystals of Pyrite accompanied by withe Calcite crystals. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 5 cm
Not available
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BT40 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of Fluorapatite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, green color, translucent and partially coated by Pyrite.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 6.5 cm
Not available
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BT41 - Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca
Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite with a nice light green color and good brilliance. On matrix of Muscovite with Arsenopyrite. The condition is excellent.
Specimen size: 10 cm x 7 cm
Not available
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BT42- Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite with a nice light green color, good brilliance and transparency. On matrix of Muscovite and Sphalerite and with Arsenopyrite, small crystals of Cassiterite and Fluorite. The condition is excellent.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 8 cm
Not available
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BT43- Quartz with Fluorapatites. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of crystals of Quartz with platy transparent crystals of light green Fluorapatites coating the crystal faces of the Quartz.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 8 cm
Not available
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BT44- Quartz with Fluorapatites and Siderite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Large biterminated crystal of Quartz coated by small crystals of light green Fluorapatites and brown Siderites. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 14.5 cm x 3.5 cm
Not available
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BT45- Quartz with etched Fluorapatite. Panasqueira mines, Barroca Grande, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Group of transparent lustrous crystals of Quartz accompanied by an etched flattened crystal of Fluorapatite with color zoning. Rare and unusual Panasqueira Fluorapatite. In good condition.
Specimen size: 10 cm x 5 cm
Not available