Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Gibbsite & Fluorapatite

Views:
Watches:
PJM104542

Gibbsite & Fluorapatite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Iron Baron Mine, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.3 × 5.6 × 3.3 cm
Description

Off white transparent crystals of gibbsite and apatite on a mixture of botyroidal manganese and iron oxides, collected at the Iron Duke Opencut in 1982

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gibbsite

Formula: 
Al(OH)3
Strunz: 
4.FE.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Richmond, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, USA

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
Earthstones Australia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

All goods must be paid for prior to shipping, all bids are binding.