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Anapaite

Ex Fersman Mineralogical Museum

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Description
Locality: 
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.8 × 2 cm
Description

Light green, vitreous, semi-transparent anapaite lath-like crystals a mollusc shell associated with several barite sheaves.

Much nicer than the photos show!

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
schani

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