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Fluorapatite & Quartz

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Fluorapatite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Golconda Pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19.1 × 15.1 × 4.1 cm
Weight: 
765.00gr
Description

Here a large fantastic flat quartz crystal hosting hundreds blue, all perfectly terminated, fluorapatite crystals ; purchased in Governador Valadares on 2010

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White