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Fluorapatite & Elbaite Var Indicolite

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Fluorapatite & Elbaite Var Indicolite

ex-Stefan Weiss Collection (found 1987)
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Gunheath Pit, St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Very nice blue, zonated fluorapatite crystals with blue fibrous elbaite (var. indicolite) inclusions. The main crystal is biterminated, full with inclusions elbaite. Indicolite also occur as free standing needles on the matrix. ex-Stefan Weiss specimen, he found the material in june 1987.

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

Elbaite

Formula: 
Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Indicolite

Variety Of: 

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Hardness: 
7
Hardness: 
0.0
Loranth Minerals

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