Fluorapatite (ex Al Kidwell Collection)

Item Description

An older specimen from the 1970s from the classic locality at Panasqueira, Portugal featuring a sharp, translucent, doubly-terminated, soft greenish color hexagonal crystal of Fluorapatite with minor associated Muscovite. There are a couple notable contacts on the piece, so it's not damage free, but still not a bad overall example of these classic and distinctive Apatites. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.