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Fluorite & Fluorapatite

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Fluorite & Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

A beautiful micromount consisting of a rhomb of rhodochrosite with dodecahedrons of fluorite and small quartz and fluorapatite crystals. Classic material!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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