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apatite - deceitful stone
Consisting of three different minerals, apatite's color depends on the predominance of fluorine, chlorine or hydroxyl. All three are usually present in every specimen but some specimens may have close to 100% of one of the minerals.
Mainly composed of granite and its constituents like quartz, feldspar and mica, pegmatites are also known to contain aquamarine, tourmaline, beryl, topaz, fluorite, apatite, tin and tungsten plus a host of other minerals.
 a happy trio

yellow apatite, mexico

Apatite is a clear to opaque stone that comes in many colors, including green, yellow, blue, violet, and yellow-green (sometimes called asparagus stone) and creamy white.
Widely distributed in all rock types, apatite is most often associated with pegmatites, a coarse grained igneous rock (formed deep within the earth) having a grain size of 3 cm or more.
While much apatite, regardless of color, is somewhat cloudy in appearance, translucent apatite is referred to as 'gemmy' apatite. However, due to its relative softness, apatite is seldom faceted as a 'settable' gem as it could too easily be scratched.
Ironically, given its name, apatite is the mineral that makes up the teeth in all vertebrate animals as well as their bones.

symbolic attributes

metaphysical
astrological gem Gemini
element air