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Fluorapatite In Galena

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Fluorapatite In Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Blackwood Opencut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 5.1 × 2.7 cm
Description

Dark blue green fluorapatite crystals in metallic silver galena crystals and numerous small spessartine crystals. The fluorapatite crystals range from blocky to elongated bars in the galena. Specimen collected by the seller in the late 1980's, has a sawn base to reduce weight.

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey
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