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Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite Var Staffelite

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Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite Var Staffelite

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Description
Locality: 
Zhelezny Rog, Anapa, Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 3.2 × 1.8 cm
Description

Rich and good example of the famous turqouise bluish botroidal "staffelite" from Kovdor, lining a vug in matrix.

Staffelite is a variety of carbonate fluorapatite.

Increasingly rare to get - this is old material from decades ago.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Variety Of: 

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Formula: 
Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(F,O)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0

Staffelite

Variety Of: 

Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(F,O)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

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Best regards Roger