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Brazilianite & Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

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Brazilianite & Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Palermo 1 Mine, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a fine specimen with numerous small, sharp brazilianite crystals on a smoky quartz crystal accompanied by numerous sharp prisms of CO3-fluorapatite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Brazilianite

Formula: 
NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4
Strunz: 
8.BK.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Córrego Frio mine, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Variety Of: 

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Formula: 
Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(F,O)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0

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