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Fluorapatite With Mica & Adularia

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Fluorapatite With Mica & Adularia

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Description
Locality: 
Pizzo Lucendro, Lucendro Valley, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm
Description

Well crystallized, undamaged waterclear crystals of fluorapatite showing a variety combination of crystal faces. In paragenesis with mica and adularia.

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

Mica

Group Parent: 
Mica Group

Adularia

Formula: 
KAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6 Ortho - clase