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Anapaite

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Anapaite

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Description
Locality: 
Vilella stream, Bellver de Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm
Weight: 
665.00gr
Description

This specimen presents a good size nodule, with an internal part with septaria structure, completely covered by very brilliant and transparent green crystals of this rare iron and calcium phosphate. In this specimen we can observe some crystals with tabular shape, of beige tone, those can correspond to messelite. Anapaite nodules from the Bellver de la Cerdanya area are a classic of the Catalan and European mineralogy. The materials where these nodules appear are part of the filling of a deep lake of the upper Miocene that developed in the southern part of the Cerdanya basin.

Mined: 
2018
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anapaite

Formula: 
Ca2Fe2+(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.10
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zheleznyi Rog (Zheleznaya balka), Anapa, Taman Peninsula, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia