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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

Former collection Lehmann (CH)
Gem Crystal

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Description
Locality: 
Slyudyanskoe Deposit, Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 5.5 × 6.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Weight: 
298.00gr
Description

Sizeable group of blue-green apatite crystals scattered on the classic yellow-orange Baikal calcite. Apatite is mostly gemmy and quite lustrous, with slightly rounded faces and minimal contacts. On the back of the specimen, a centimetric fissure is fully lined with elongated scalenohedric, colorless calcite crystals.

Quite rich and sizeable. Former coll. Lehmann (CH).

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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

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