Apatite
Subtitle: the great pretender
By: contributors, Michael Bainbridge ... [et al.] ; editors, John Rakovan and Gloria A. Staebler with Donald A. Dallaire and David W. Bunk ; illustrators, Tina Alves ... [et al.].
Series: ExtraLapis English -- no. 17.
Publisher: Lithographie, Ltd.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Denver, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780983632337; 9780983632320
Subjects: Apatite
Notes: No. 17 of an untitled series (published by Lithographie, Ltd., formerly Lapis International) which used to be called extraLapis English.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 116, 118, 120, 122 & 124).
Table of contents: title: Apatite : a large and illustrious family / John Rakovan and John Hughes; title: Color and fluorescence / John Rakovan and Glen Waychunas; title: Type locality : Ehrenfriedersdorf / Stefan Meier; title: The geology of apatite occurrences / Robert F. Martin and John Rakovan; title: Apatites of the United States / Carl A. Francis and Donald A. Dallaire; title: Thousand pound crystals and eight carat gemstones : Canada is big! / Kimberly Tait and Michael Bainbridge; title: Mexican apatite / Peter K.M. Megaw and Mark Barton; title: Brazil's great apatite localities / Luiz Menezes and Mario Chaves; title: Apatite from the Andes / Alfredo Petrov and Jaroslav Hyršl; title: The Panasqueira mines : one hundred years of fluorapatite / Carles Curto Milà and Jordi Fabre i Fornaguera; title: Apatites of the Alps / Phil Scalisi; title: Apatite valleys : localities of northern Pakistan / Dudley Blauwet; title: Apatite from Nūristān, Afghanistan / John Rakovan; title: China and Japan / John Rakovan; title: Apatite localities of Russia and other former Soviet republics / Dmitriy Belakovskiy; title: Meteoritic apatite / Rhian Jones.