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Anapaite

Type locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Description

Choice green crystal groupings of anapaite are set nicely within a vug in matrix. No damage and very nice for the species!

Ex Prof. Gösswein collection, Germany

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