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Fluorapatite & Bertrandite

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Fluorapatite & Bertrandite

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Description
Locality: 
Real Quarry, Real, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 1.9 × 2.3 cm
Description

Rich specimen with many pink fluorapatite crystals around.

Some bertrandite 'spears' are also present.

Defunct locality.

Collected: 
2005
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
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

Bertrandite

Formula: 
Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.BD.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Petit-Port, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de Loire, France