Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view. Cauliflower form apatite on childrenite
Field Collected: Forrest Fogg material
Catalog No.: u1579
Notes: A carbon tape mounted grain EDS analysis (BC18) showed only P, Ca, O and minor Fe, (likely from the orange oxide coating). The small Si and Al responses are likely from grain surface contamination and the C from the carbon tape.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Pod 3, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: Top photo, 4 mm field of view. Lower photo 1.4 mm field of view
Field Collected: Forrrest Fogg 1972-1976
Catalog No.: u1579 - second photo set
Notes: Gifted to Tom Mortimer by Gordon Jackson. EDS analysis BC18.
These "cauliflower habit" apatites are most unusual.
Jim Nizamoff commented on these photos: "These can be somewhat common in childrenite-rich matrix types and especially with siderite. Sometimes they have rather fibrous terminations (I have called these hairy apatites). SEM imagery of these is really neat."
Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 cm field of view.
Field Collected: Michael Hutchins 10/15
Catalog No.: A Michael Hutchins specimen and photo
Notes: Specimen gifted to Tom Mortimer 11/15. This TN specimen is a testimony to nice specimens are still to be found at the Chickering Mine.
Locality: Keyes #1 Mine, Orange, NH
Specimen Size: 1 cm crystal
Field Collected: Don Dallaire - Oct. 1977
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen
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Locality: Lincoln Mine (Molybdenium mine), Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen with 1.5 cm pale apatite crystal in quartz-feldspar matrix
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer 6/2006
Catalog No.: 1531
Notes: Apatite from the Lincoln Mine is fluorescent yellow. The Lincoln "mine" is about a cellar-hole-sized pit.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.5 mm chalk-white apatite crystal.
Field Collected: From a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: u1899
Notes: Many whitlockite crystals are present on the matrix hosting this apatite crystal. The grayish, oxide-coated, mass to the left of the apatite is whitlockite. These chalk-white apatite crystals are frequently Apatite-(CaOH), however no testing has been done on this specimen.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm "cogwheel" beryllonite? or parallel growth apatite with pseudo-cubic goyazite crystals
Field Collected: Clayton Ford. A gift from Gordon Jackson
Catalog No.: u1959
Notes: [tm] My initial impression of this was beryllonite, but other knowledgeable phosphate species collectors have opined apatite.
Locality: Corson Mine, Nottingham, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm pale-green apatite crystal in albite matrix
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 8/30/08
Catalog No.: u2117
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Locality: Turner Mine, Marlow, NH
Specimen Size: 2.9 cm x 1.7 cm crystal
Field Collected: Bob Wilken - 9/13/17
Catalog No.: Gordon Jackson #4789
Notes: This crystal was initially identified as triphylite. However, bright yellow fluorescence indicated apatite.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Pod #3, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm field of view
Field Collected: Forrest Fogg
Catalog No.: u1572
Notes: This is the only Palermo example I have seen like these.