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Fluorapatite & Muscovite

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Fluorapatite & Muscovite

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Description
Locality: 
Sapo Mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.1 × 1.1 × 9.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
1 154.00gr
Description

This is a large, dispaly specimen from Sapo mine, features some large dark green, lustrous fluorapatite crystals on albite with some large muscovite crystals ; there is a little ding but nothing of important ; the specimen displays very very well ! Purchased at Saint-Marie 2017

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

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White