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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

Self collected
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Chywoon Quarry, Longdowns, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 11 × 7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
683.00gr
Description

Many Pale blue-grey fluorapatite crystals upon a single K-Feldspar crystal, the largest ~ 5mm in length.

The Feldspar crystal showing some prism faces and terminations is probably the largest single crystal to have come from this quarry.

Collected: 
01/11/1997
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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