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Calcite On Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

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Calcite On Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.1 × 4.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

A wedge shaped piece of matrix is covered on both sode with a thick botyroidal coating of creme coloured, translucent carbonate fluorapatite. On this base, snow white clusters of stubby calcite crystals have formed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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
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