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Fluorapatite & Bertrandite

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Fluorapatite & Bertrandite

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Description
Locality: 
Emmons Quarry, Uncle Tom Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6 × 4.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with a vuggy area hosting dozens of violet apatite crystals, with blades and sprays of bertrandite. Rich and pretty!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Bertrandite

Formula: 
Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Petit-Port, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de Loire, France

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