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Anapaite

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Anapaite

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Description
Locality: 
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.1 × 2 cm
Description

Spectacular Anapaite crystals in exceptional dimension with an excellent color and luster, more isolated than usual, which have grown inside a fossil bivalve shell. They are more and more hard to obtain and also highly valued on the mineral market.

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