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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Liscombe Deposit, Monmouth Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.8 × 12.3 × 9.5 cm
Description

A 7 cm doubly terminated mixed translucent and transparent green fluorapatite crystal with gemmy and lustrous green apatite crystals aesthetically set in parallel on sparkly pink calcite matrix.

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