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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6.3 × 4.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.90cm
Weight: 
208.00gr
Description

Blue prismatic fluorapatite crystals with rounded terminations that grew in a yellowish-orange calcite matrix and this originates curved faces, typical for the locality. Free of damages.

Acquired 1998. Ex Bob Janssen #756.

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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