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Enstatite Ilmenite & Fluorapatite

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Enstatite Ilmenite & Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Summit Rock, Klamath County, Oregon, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

Complex translucent brown crystals of enstatite associated with flattened metallic ilmenite crystals and nearly fibrous, colorless fluorapatite.

From the estate of noted California collector and dealer Charles Trantham.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Enstatite

Formula: 
MgSiO3
Group Parent: 
Orthopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Ilmenite

Formula: 
Fe2+TiO3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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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