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Apatite & Montgomeryite

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Description
Locality: 
Asland Quarry, Montcada I Reixac, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

Very beautiful balls of acicular crystals of this apatite variety, so called before carbonate-fluorapatite from a limestone quarry associated with light green montgomeryite 

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

Montgomeryite

Formula: 
Ca4MgAl4(PO4)6(OH)4·12H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA
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