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Bastnäsite Apatite & Fluornatropyrochlore

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Bastnäsite Apatite & Fluornatropyrochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.1 × 1.7 cm
Description

specimen with a prismatic exagonal white crystal of apatite with two orange crystals of fluornatropyrochlore with an aggregate of some brownish exagonal crystals of bastnaesite.

c. 2609

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bastnäsite

Synonym Of: 

Bastnäsite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(CO3)F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20a
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5

Bastnäsite-(La)

Formula: 
(La,Ce)(CO3)F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20a
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0

Bastnäsite-(Nd)

Formula: 
Nd(CO3)F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20a
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5

Bastnäsite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Ce)(CO3)F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20a
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5

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

Fluornatropyrochlore

Formula: 
(Na,REE,Ca)2Nb2(O,OH)6F
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Maoniuping Mine, Mianning Co., Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China

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