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Fluorapatite With Martite

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Fluorapatite With Martite

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Description
Locality: 
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Victoria de Durango, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4 × 3.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.60cm
Weight: 
62.00gr
Description

Prismatic crystals of gemmy green fluorapatite resting nicely on a matrix of quartz and chalcedony, and associated to a group of sharp, well defined crystals of martite, a pseudomorph of hematite after octahedral magnetite.

Acquired in 1985 by Dr Gerard Vogel, it comes with a vitrine label.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

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

Martite

Variety Of: 

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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