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Staffelite

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Staffelite

ex coll. Boris Talosi
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Description
Locality: 
Phosphorite Deposit, Staffel, Limburg an der Lahn, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 8 × 5.4 cm
Description

Very good rare classic type locality specimen of staffelite. Staffelite is a variety of fluorapatite. Staffel is - of course - the type locality.

Specimen nicely mounted on an acrylic base.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Staffelite

Variety Of: 

Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(F,O)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

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