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Apachite: Cu9Si10O29·11(H2O)
Comments: Spherical crystals 0.2mm of blue apachite as grape-like botryodal aggregates. Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Comments: Blue crusts of apachite on skarn rock. Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden, Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Apatite: Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl) Carbonate-fluorapatite: Ca5(PO4,CO3)3F
Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-fluorapatite on matrix. Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Size Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Apatite: Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl) Robertsite: Ca6Mn+++9(PO4)9O6(H2O)6·3(H2O) Carbonate-hydroxylapatite: Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(OH)
Comments: Black crystals of Robertsite on pink carbonate-hydroxylapatite. Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Apatite-(CaCl): Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Comments: Blocky crystals of chlorapatite. Location: Oyna, Froland, Norway. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Apatite-(CaF): Ca5(PO4)3F Gatumbaite: CaAl2(PO4)2(OH)2·(H2O)
Comments: White crystalline gatumbaite with yellow brazilianite in massive blue fluorapatite. Location: Buranga Pegmatite, near Gatumba, Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Apatite-(CaF): Ca5(PO4)3F Beryl: Be3Al2Si6O18 Muscovite: KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH,F)2 Apatite: Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl)
Comments: Pink crystals of fluorapatite with pale blue beryl (aquamarine) on books of muscovite crystals. Location: Nagar area, Gilgit district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 3 cm. © Dan Weinrich
Apatite-(CaF): Ca5(PO4)3F Quartz: SiO2
Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite on slightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E. David and Houston Museum collections. Location: Pech, Kunar Province, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Scale: Crystal size 3.0 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm. © Ed Rosenzweig
Apatite-(CaOH): Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Comments: Opaque white blocky crystal of hydroxylapatite. Location: Snarum, Buskerud, Norway. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Aphthitalite: (K,Na)3Na(SO4)2
Comments: Aphthitalite crystals. Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Apjohnite: MnAl2(SO4)4·22(H2O)
Comments: White crystalline mass of apjohnite. Location: Terlano, Bolzano, Italy. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species