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Anapaite

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Anapaite

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Description
Locality: 
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5.3 × 3.4 cm
Description

Lustrous green anapaite crystal clusters partially encased in limonitic matrix from the famous Crimean locality.

Seldom available on the market in this quality

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anapaite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe2+(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.10
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zheleznyi Rog (Zheleznaya balka), Anapa, Taman Peninsula, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia