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MGR1084525

Fluorite & Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Akchatau Mine, Akchatau, Shet, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.1 × 7.3 × 2.9 cm
Description

A very rare fluorite specimen from a this very uncommon loclity. The whole matrix is covered with tiny, intense purple octahedral fluorite crystals of first generation. On it three razor sharp terminated, jet-black octahedrons up to 18 mm on edges. A small apatite crystal along the upper edge of the specimen is also present. This material was always rare, but today more or less impossible to obtain.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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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