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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
76.00gr
Description

This historic old extinct tin-tungsten mine, closed in 1990, is the Type Locality for Fluorapatite.Here we have a nice chain of white Fluorapatite crystals to 1 cm in association with dark purple Fluorite crystal with parquet development on the surface, not so common combination. Previous label says us that the specimen was collected prior of 1960, thanks to the company old address number 6. (see  Mineralogical Record Labels). Ex personal collection.

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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