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Apatite & Elbaite On Albite

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Apatite & Elbaite On Albite

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Description
Locality: 
Pyramid Hill Quarry, Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm
Description

Greenish brown and blue acicular crystals of elbaite on white albite crystals accompanied by several stubby pyramidal hexangonal barrels of apatite, almost colourless with pale blue at the edges. there are also a couple of pyrite cubes present

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Apatite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Hydroxylapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5

Elbaite

Formula: 
Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden
Earthstones Australia

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