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Apatite & Fluorite

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Apatite & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Greifenstein Adit, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

A small, but very fine and rare locality piece with purplish apatite crystals up to 8 mm associated with a spherical cluster of tiny fluorite crystals and some gilbertite. From the Unverhofft Glück Vein at the Greifenstein Adit.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Apatite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Hydroxylapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Cartils Minerals

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