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Fluorapatite On Quartz

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Fluorapatite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Out of a matrix of the typical Greisen-vein consisting of quartz, blue fluorite, cassiterite and mica grow some nice lustrous hexagonal pale blue and lilac fluorapatite crystals. Good and rare for the locale.

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

Quartz

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

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110