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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Golconda Pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 7.6 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
103.00gr
Description

Aesthetic specimen from Brazil of blue fluorapatite with a myriad of wonderful perfect crystals (most of which double-terminated) of excellent brightness and transparency on matrix. Crystals are present in two different sides of the piece and under the UV light they show a beautiful pink fluorescence. 

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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

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