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Fluorapatite In Calcite

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Fluorapatite In Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 3.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Very beautiful specimen with sea-blue, well terminated crystals up to 2.0 cm - most of them double terminated.

The specimen is not etched, like many others which were offered.

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: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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