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Fluorapatite & Fairfieldite

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Fluorapatite & Fairfieldite

Jack Eaker collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

You are bidding on a nice small miniature sample with some nice fluorapatite crystals to 8mm on matrix with minor fairfieldite. There are some minor dings on the sample but it is quite a large crystal for the locality. Collected by and from the Jack Eaker collection. 

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

Fairfieldite

Formula: 
Ca2(Mn2+,Fe2+)(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.05
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry; Branchville Mica Mine; Smith Mine), Branchville, Redding (Reading), Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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