Fluorapatite on orange Calcite (Kay Robertson Coll.)

Item Description

A 3.3 cm, textbook hexagonal, lustrous, translucent, sea-green fluorapatite crystal with a sharp termination is aesthetically frozen in the starkly contrasting orange calcite matrix. Apatite crystals of this color varietal are not that common from Ontario and this is a showy and highly representative example from the Wilberforce area from the Kay Robertson Collection # 7084. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record). Classic Ontario apatite and calcite.