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Fluorapatite & Quartz

ex B. Stürtz, Bonn (GER)
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Description
Locality: 
Horní Slavkov, Sokolov, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 4.7 × 5 cm
Description

Schlaggenwald (or today Horni Slavkov) is one of the most famous european localities and has produced impressive specimens for centuries. Apatite is well known from there but rarely seen on the market nowadays. This example is a matrix of quartz with several vugs which host brownish prismatic (one even fan-like)apatites. Comes with B. Stürtz label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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