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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

Ex R. Wilke, Eppertshausen, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Øyna, Froland, Agder, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13 × 17 × 8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Weight: 
1 645.00gr
Description

This is a large, museum-sized specimen featuring groups of greenish-yellowish, intergrown hexagonal fluorapatite crystals up to 1.7 cm size.

Øyna is a farm located north of the the road Øynaheivegen (road nr 3764), and west of Øynavatn lake. The locality was found in the early 1980s, these specimens are very scarce on the markets these days.

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

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