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Apatite Var Moroxite

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Apatite Var Moroxite

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Description
Locality: 
Arendal, Agder, Norway
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm
Description

„Moroxit“ is a name earlier used in Norway for apatite. Here we have two parallel, waterblue, translucent and nice terminated crystals (the one 1.2 cm, the second 0.8 cm in length) embedded attractively in slightly rose-coloured calcite.

The specimen is followed by an old label in German language saying that the specimen is from one of the old Arendal iron mines.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Apatite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Hydroxylapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5

Moroxite

Variety Of: 

Apatite

Hardness: 
5
Hardness: 
0.0

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