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Fluorapatite On Dufrénite

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Fluorapatite On Dufrénite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection.

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2 × 2.4 cm
Description

Translucent white hemisphers of fluoraptite crystals are sharply contrasted by a vughy green and yellow dufrenite matrix.

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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