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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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4.9 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.10cm
Description

Bicoloured, doubly-terminated apatite crystals with good vitreous lustre, on a matrix of pink coarse crystals of calcite.

Bought in 2001 by Dr. Bob Janssens (specimen #2042).

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

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