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Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
7 × 10.5 × 3.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

A nice and aesthetic combination of pale greenish, highly lustrous thick tabular apatite crystals up to 10mm across, grey, metallic, highly lustrous arsenopyrite crystals up to 15 mm across, yellow-brown siderite rhombohedral crystals up to 25 mm across and transparent quartz crystals with nice inclusions up to 37 mm tall on matrix from the renowned locality Panasqueira, Portugal. A really nice specimen with some imperfections on some apatite and quartz crystals. 

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

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