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Hydroxylapatite On Anapaite

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Hydroxylapatite On Anapaite

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Description
Locality: 
Bellver de Cerdanya, Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm
Weight: 
129.00gr
Description

A well terminated nodule of anapaite together with white balls of hydroxylapatite on crystals of the former.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydroxylapatite

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

Anapaite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe2+(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.10
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zheleznyi Rog (Zheleznaya balka), Anapa, Taman Peninsula, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia