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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Elephant Bay, Pebble Island, West Falkland, Falkland Islands
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm
Description

pale brownish alluvial aggregates of massive Fluorapatite, old samples collected around 1900 in a very remote location of the British empire

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