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Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Feli, La Fregeneda, Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.2 × 1 cm
Weight: 
10.00gr
Description

Very nice and aesthetic group of bluish fluorapatite crystals, showing well defined faces and edges. Some of them show defined prism and even hexagonal pyramid faces. Although the site is known, it is not easy to find samples on matrix with a good size and luster ... and on matrix, because it is very easy, when you work them, that crystals fall out. They are transparent to translucent with nice color zoning, more intense in the center of the prism. They are usually accompanied by quartz and K feldspar.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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