Fluorapatite on "Mountain Leather" Adularia and a great pickup for

and a great pickup for anybody who collects secondary ore minerals

red and even purple

rich blue-green colored prismatic Amazonite crystal beautifully flaring off of cream-colored Feldspar matrix

which are typically opaque or barely translucent

slightly hydrothermally etched

Fluorapatite on "Mountain Leather" Adularia and a great pickup forThis piece comes to us from the Kay Robertson collection (#8407) and the label states that it's from the Untere Riffelmorne (Lower Riffel Moraine) in the Stubachtal (Stubach Valley) of Salzburg. I've seen specimens from the Riffel Glacier, but I don't know if I've seen a piece labeled as coming from the actual moraine of the glacier prior to this piece. A sharp, lustrous, translucent, medium yellow color hexagonal crystal of Fluorapatite measuring 8