Locality: Charles Davis Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3 mm crystal in albite vug
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 8/19
Catalog No.: u2258
Notes: "C" axis termination points to 2 o'clock. Fluoresces pale orange-yellow.
Apatite is uncommon at Charles Davis and is not listed for Charles Davis on mindat. I think this is first I have seen from there, (and not a particularly good one by NH standards). For those reasons, I thought worthy of a photo.
Locality: Keyes #4 Mine, Orange, NH
Specimen Size: 8 mm pale green apatite crystal group in albite vug
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 1184
Notes: The Keyes #4 Mine is quite small, off in the woods.
Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH
Specimen Size: 1.7 cm crystal
Field Collected: Dana Jewell - 9/1989
Catalog No.: A Gordon Jackson specimen
Notes: This is a large apatite for the Keyes Mines.
Locality: Keyes Mine, Orange, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Dana Jewell - 9/1984
Catalog No.: A Gordon Jackson specimen
Notes: These chalk-white apatites may be hydroxylapatite or fluorapatite, or a thin over-growth of hydroxylapatite on fluorapatite.
Locality: Keyes #1 Mine, Orange, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm apatite crystal
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - 1991
Catalog No.: u393
Notes: The small clear crystals on the apatite are bertrandite.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: Clear, fat-tabular, crystals. 1.4 mm field of view
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer - Aug., 1994
Catalog No.: NC - secondary collection
Notes:
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.4 mm green apatite crystal with clear apatite extension
Field Collected: Anna Wilken
Catalog No.: An Anna Wilken specimen, Bob Wilken photo. (PALFluorapatite01)
Notes: [bw] " It's an odd specimen. Not sure if fluorapatite can have scepters or reverse scepters."
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.0 mm field of view. Apatite balls on siderite crystal
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u1915
Notes: Similar white apatite balls have been found at the Chickering Mine in Walpole, NH. These were analyzed to be apatite-CaF, fluorapatite.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.3 mm field of view. Apatite balls in quartz vug
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2435
Notes: Similar white apatite balls have been found at the Chickering Mine in Walpole, NH.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 6.1 mm cluster of blue fluorapatite crystals
Field Collected: Bob Wilken
Catalog No.: PLFluorapatite08
Notes:
Locality: Lincoln Molybdenite Mine, Westmoreland, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 cm specimen. Daylight and SWUV photos
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 2153
Notes: This is a Philip Morrill locality.