Vote for your favorite mineral in #MinCup26! - Quartz vs. Asagiite
It's a classic vs a newbie as the most common named mineral in the crust Quartz is up against an exceedingly-rare sea foam-green mineral discovered just a few years ago Asagiite.
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Apatite from
Osečná Complex, Osečná, Liberec District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3A
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Osečná Complex, Osečná, Liberec District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1372990
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1372990:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
23.8km (14.8 miles) ⓘTachovský Hill quarry, Tachov, Česká Lípa District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic
26.9km (16.7 miles) ⓘTrachyandesite occurrence, Bogatynia, Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
27.4km (17.0 miles) ⓘMonchiquite occurrence, Bogatynia, Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
27.6km (17.1 miles) ⓘLausitz Volcanic Field, Görlitz District, Saxony, Germany
29.7km (18.4 miles) ⓘBogatynia Volcanic Complex, Gmina Bogatynia, Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
34.2km (21.3 miles) ⓘJizerská louka, Jizerka, Kořenov, Jablonec nad Nisou District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic
34.5km (21.4 miles) ⓘVelký Újezd dikes, Velký Újezd, Chorušice, Mělník District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
43.1km (26.8 miles) ⓘOld leucogranite quarry, Kotlina, Gmina Mirsk, Lwówek Śląski County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
44.4km (27.6 miles) ⓘSzklarska Poręba Huta granite quarry, Szklarska Poręba, Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
44.8km (27.8 miles) ⓘGrabiszyce Quarry, Grabiszyce Średnie, Gmina Leśna, Lubań County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
References
Ulrych, J., Pivec, E. Rutšek, J. & Povondra, P. 1990. Olivines, monticelites and clinopyroxenes in melilitic rocks, Ploučnice River Region, Czechoslovakia. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geologica, 141-164.
Ulrych, J., Pivec, Povondra, P. & Rutšek 1990. Phlogopites from subvolcanic melilitic rocks, Ploučnice River Region, Czechoslovakia. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geologica, 9-24.
Ulrych, J., Povondra, P., Rutšek, J., & Pivec, E. (1988). Melilitic and melilite-bearing subvolcanic rocks from the Ploučnice river region, Czechoslovakia. Acta Univ. Carol., Geol, 2, 195-231.
Ulrych, J., Pivec, E., Povondra, P., Rutsek, J. (1988) Perovskite from melilite rocks, Osecná complex, northern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Monatshefte, 1988 (2) 81-95
Ulrych, J., Povondra, P., Pivec, E., Rutsek, J., & Sitek, J. (1994). Compositional evolution of metasomatic garnet in melilitic rocks of the Osecná complex, Bohemia. The Canadian Mineralogist, 32(3), 637-647.
Pivec, E, Ulrych, J, Höhndorf. A., , Rutsek, J (1998) Melilitic rocks from northern Bohemia: geochemistry and mineralogy. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen, 173 (2). 119-154 doi:10.1127/njma/173/1998/119
Ulrych, J., Pivec, E., Povondra, P., Rutšek, J. (2000) Upper-mantle xenoliths in melilitic rocks of the Osečná Complex, North Bohemia. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 45 (1-2) 79-83
Ulrych, J., Dostal, J., Hegner, E., Balogh, K., & Ackerman, L. (2008). Late Cretaceous to Paleocene melilitic rocks of the Ohře/Eger Rift in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic: Insights into the initial stages of continental rifting. Lithos, 101(1-2), 141-161.
Ulrych, J., Adamovic, J., Krmicek, L., Ackerman, L., & Balogh, K. (2014). Revision of Scheumann’s classification of melilitic lamprophyres and related melilitic rocks in light of new analytical data. Journal of Geosciences, 59(1), 3-22.
 
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