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Anapaite

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Anapaite

Classic Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Vilella stream, Bellver de Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.4 × 3 cm
Description

Very nice Anapaite specimen with brilliant and transparent green crystals of this rare iron and calcium phosphate.Anapaite nodules from the Bellver de la Cerdanya area are a classic of the Catalan and European mineralogy. The material where these nodules appear are part of the filling of a deep lake of the upper Miocene that developed in the southern part of the Cerdanya basin.

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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