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Fluorapatite Calcite Quartz & Hematite

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Fluorapatite Calcite Quartz & Hematite

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Description
Locality: 
Nuestra Señora del Carmen Mines, La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 3 cm
Weight: 
100.00gr
Description

A very rich and representative combination specimen featuring lustrous apple green fluorapatite, greyish quartz, grey to white calcite and black metallic hematite on matrix.

The host rock is a lamproite, a rare volcanic rock that erupted and crystallized 7 million years ago.

Jumilla is a quite famous locale in Europe: its remarkable mineralogy has been studied and described since the 18th century by the most notable european scientists, among which Jean-Baptiste Romé de L'Isle and René Just Haüy, the founding fathers of crystallography.

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Aragonite and Vaterite
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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