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Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Golconda Mine, Golconda, Coroaci, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
10.00gr
Description

An excellent speck of leafy cleavelandite hosts a rich coverage of water blue hexagonal apatite crystals. Quite well developed, gemmy, very lustrous, apatite crystals show both basal pinacoids and minor side pyramidal faces. Associated, also some creamy crystals, possibly bertrandite.

Very rich miniature, from a find dated back a few years ago. Cleavelandite has a very evident cleavage, thus the bottom of the matrix might lose some millimetric fragments during shipping - however the mineralized surface is perfectly stable.

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

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