Siilinjärvi Mine, Siilinjärvi, North Savo, Finland
Blueish green 15 mm richterite crystal.
Several green richterites to 18 mm in matrix.
Pinkish brown zircon with phlogopite from Siilinjärvi carbonatite complex.
Botryoidal apatite. White SW-fluorescence.
Särkijärvi pit in Siilinjärvi apatite mine, April, 2016. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Yara fertilizer plant and phosphate rock mining in Finland. Production of NPK, nitrate acid and phosphoric acid.
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