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Svabite & Calcite

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Svabite & Calcite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Långban, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.7 × 5.1 cm
Description

Light brown svabite with white calcite. Under the shortwave uv-lampe glows the svabite orange, and the calcite intensively red.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Svabite

Formula: 
Ca5(AsO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark (Nordmarksberg), Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White