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Fluorapatite On Dufrénite

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Fluorapatite On Dufrénite

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Description
Locality: 
Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2 × 0.9 cm
Description

A cavity in phosphatic gossan is lined with a layer of green dufrenite in which carbonate fluorapatite crystals have formed as a spray translucent white barrel crystals and also as an intergrown group of crystals forming the start of a botyroidal cluster

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

Dufrénite

Formula: 
Ca0.5Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Anglar, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
Earthstones Australia

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