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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Wilberforce, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15 × 11 × 5 cm
Description

Superb specimen of translucent to gemmy green fluorapatite crystals on calcite matrix.  Some of the crystals have been glued back on matrix, and all crystals have been lacquered, both widely accepted practices for these specimens.  Purchased in 1999.

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

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