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Fluorapatite

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Fluorapatite

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Description
Locality: 
Adra, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.8 × 2 cm
Description

Absolutely gemmy, water clear and perfect terminated Fluor-Apatite crystals on a bed of mica crystals with gemmy clear quartz crystals.

Beautiful specimen.

Fluor-Apatite was analysed by SEM-EDS

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