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Anapaite

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Anapaite

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Description
Locality: 
Chernomorsky Mine, Kerchenskoe Deposit, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 3.8 × 2.6 cm
Description

The Anapaite shows very good olive-green color and is set in a black vug inside of red-brown matrix. This is really an excellent sample of rare anapaite! No significant damages to report!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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