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APA1 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 175 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 10.5 x 7.1 x 2.4 cm
The largest crystal is 4 cm, plus Sharp associate xls on contrasting feldspar. The large crystal is bruised. shows nicely, but its there...otherwise $1000 for the sheer size of the crystal , which is unusual
APA14 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 1200 Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 12.7 x 6.3 x 2.5 cm
Superb, very juicy and gemmy crystals to 1.8 cm highhlight this specimen, forming a cascade of color that goes down the matrix from top to bottom. This is a gorgeous piece, and I honestly debated doubling the price on it...
APA15 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $300 -sh) - SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 6.6 x 6.7 x 2.2 cm
A large, single, compound crystal of 3 cm, perched smartly on matrix! This is one of the largest crystals!
APA18 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 600 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 7.9 x 5.7 x 4.8 cm
This beautiful specimen features two dramatic, windswept, elongated crystals that are highly translucent. The first is perfect, and is an inch (2.5 cm). The larger one, arranged like a sailboat triangle above the center crystal, is even larger and just as nice, thought its back termination is missing off to the right (hence the low price for the piece). Still, the overall composition and size of the crystals is very appealing and its a superb example from teh find at a good price, if you do not mind the right edge of one crystal there.
APA19 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 350 Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 10.5 x 10.2 x 5.8 cm
A HUGE agglomeration of smaller crystals, many quite well developed, arranged around a solid rocky core (so it is hefty!). This piece is big, colorful, and showy at first - but it does have some damage in teh form of bruised or contacted areas, hence the lower price.
APA2 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Quartz - $ 1750 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 9 x 6.3 x 2.9 cm
This is one of only a VERY FEW specimens, perhaps under half a dozen, that came out on quartz matrix. These crystals reach 3 cm and have a natural, wet lustre to them - the best lustrous pieces of the lot were, seemingly, the ones on the quartz. Hence the higher price for the few that are so good. The matrix is actually a shard of quartz, crystallized on the display face though not elsewhere on the matrix.
APA20 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Quartz - $ 250 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 6.4 x 3.5 x 3.4 cm
A riveting piece with extra color and transparency, as the best specimens for color were associated with quartz for some reason. It is a fine miniature, for display and as an example of the species. An odd quartz seam runs through the piece, splitting the apatite crystal vein...more interesting, probably, in person
APA21 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 1500 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 12.4 x 7 x 4.1 cm
A remarkably large 4.5 cm compound crystal caps off this large specimen, and this is an exceptional sized crystal for the find. It is so large and thick, that it appears darker in the photo than in real life. The piece is a truly impressive example, and is better in person, I think.
APA22 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE with Muscovite and Feldspar - $ 850 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 12.1 x 11.3 x 5.9 cm
A beautiful large specimen with a solid covering of apatite all the way around, completely covering hte rocky core of the piece on all sides. From teh apatite, little pink feldspars have grown out! Although individually the crystals are smallish (1 to 1.5 cm), the carpet of them is exceedingly rich and so the piece is very colorful as a result. It is a large impressive specimen, that is better in person. I am pricing the few specimens with complete coverage, you will note, lower by far than those with isolated crystals. This simply reflects my own taste, and does not diminish the value of these relatively bargain-priced specimens of this sort. This is similar to APA19, although this one is without the damage and is nearly pristine.
APA23 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 3000 Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 29.3 x 17.1 x 5.8 cm
This is one of the largest half dozen specimens in the find, as reported to me. It consists of a heavy plate of feldspar on which sit over a dozen 3-4 cm crystals. It is so big, that it is really har dto photograph accurately but suffice to say the crystals are of the quality seen in the closeup. All are intact, save only one broken crysatl in the left-center of the specimen (and in any case, it should probably be trimmed to remove that third of the piece, leaving a more elegant if smaller result). This piece was priced at 5000 EUROS at the show, at its origianl retail price...just to give you a feel for how the best there were priced and how i have amortised and reduced prices on many larger pieces, as i got a good deal on buying out the lot of them.
APA24 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE with Quartz - $ 300 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 6.1 x 4.8 x 2.7 cm
A really unusual combination piece, the only such I have seen with a CRYSTAL of quartz, in fact! Here it is nestled amongst a floater mass of disc-shaped apatites. Complete all around, though duller of lustre on the backside.
APA25 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 750 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 15.6 x 9.3 x 3.9 cm
A dozen sharp, very well-colored crystals to 2 cm liberally cover this specimen. It is a dramatic piece, with among the best color of any in the find. This is more evident in person, I assure you (and since the pic was hard, the price got lower and I consider this a real bargain).
APA26 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Quartz shard - $ 1500 Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 10.2 x 7.3 x 2.2 cm
At 6.5 cm, this crystal on the right is the largest single crystal that I am aware of from the find. The crystal on the left side is 4 cm tip to tip (and is not damaged...it just has an odd ingrown face at that "hole" which is not distracting in person at all. The apatites sit flat on a flat quartz shard, which is a floater, complete all around! Because of the thin nature of the piece, it is translucent to light and shows extremely well when backlit.
APA27 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE with Quartz - $ 200 SOLD Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil large cabinet, 4.5 x 4.2 x 4.2 cm
A very unique piece with what lokos like a quartz shard, sticking up from the mass of apatites. The shard is perhaps a pseudomorph of quartz after anhydrite, would be my guess from the shape
APA29 - carbonate-FLUORAPATITE on Feldspar - $ 1750 Sapo Mine, Goiabera, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 19 x 9.1 x 5.9 cm
A hefty specimen with one side loaded with HUGE, deeply-colored apatites reaching in one crystal to almost 4 cm (and several to 3 cm). These crystals are all aligned along the best presentation face of the piece and form a dramatic view. BETTER IN PERSON! It is only relatively cheaper than other big pieces with big crystals, because of the size and weight. It could be trimmed, probably, to improve it, and I will do so and raise the price myself if it does not sell at some point.
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