Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Fluorapatite On Cleavelandite

Views:
Watches:
KSC610408

Fluorapatite On Cleavelandite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Paprook, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Fine,super lustrous translucent fluoroapatite crystals on matrix of cleavelandite! The lavender colored crystals are tabular and sharp and well contrasted from the white matrix! There is a small green incomplete tourmaline crystal, which offers color accent!

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

Cleavelandite

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps