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Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are watching a superfine and colourful specimen of numerous, mostly well defined crystals of violet apatite on matrix. The apatite is showing hexagonal habit, is transparent and high lustrous. A very aesthetic mini in splendid condition.

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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