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Calcioferrite & Apatite

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Calcioferrite & Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm
Description

Calcioferrite is a rare phosphate species found only in a few locations worldwide, this is a very rich specimen of this species. Pale to butter yellow platey swordlike crystals of calcioferrite are richly scattered across the top and in several cavities around the edges of this specimen. There are also sugary to small barrel like crystals of apatite.

Collected in the erly 1980's at Klemms Quarry at Moculta

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcioferrite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe3+2(PO4)3(OH)·7H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Battenberg, Grünstadt-Land, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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
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