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Melilite Nepheline & Apatite

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Melilite Nepheline & Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Campos de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2 × 1.6 cm
Description

Dark orange nepheline crystals with stout nepheline prisms and slender prisms of apatite. Similar to the Eifel material, this is from a find last year.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melilite

Group Parent: 
Melilite Group

Nepheline

Formula: 
(Na,K)AlSiO4
Strunz: 
9.FA.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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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