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Fluorapatite & Bertrandite

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Fluorapatite & Bertrandite

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Description
Locality: 
Golconda Pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.5 × 3 cm
Description

Lustrous blue fluorapatite crystals on albite with minor bertrandite

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

Bertrandite

Formula: 
Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Petit-Port, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de Loire, France