The cavity in this piece hosts beautiful hexagonal prisms of purple fluorapatite to 1.1 cm together with small sparkling quartz crystals and microcline crystals. The largest fluorapatite crystal is the main feauture of the specimen and is wonderfully complex. The two larger fluorapatite crystals have nice color and the smaller of the two, below, inside the edge of the cavity, is gemmy. These crystals are sharp and lustrous. The two large crystals are in excellent condition, with no damage except one small chip in each - the largest has a very small one at a back corner, adjoining the martix behind the crystal and not visible from the display angle, and the smaller of the two has a small one that is forward-facing but angles toward the bottom of the matrix. (Other apatites at the right-hand-periphery are incomplete where they were attached to the host rock from which this specimen was removed.) The underside of the matrix (not visible) has been ground so that the specimen stands perfectly as in the photographs.

This specimen was in the Robert Bartsch Collection, and was collected by him on July 13, 1972. 

A grerat lavender fluorapatite from the King LIthia Mine.