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Fluorapatite With Opal

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Fluorapatite With Opal

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Description
Locality: 
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Victoria de Durango, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 5.3 × 3.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
129.00gr
Description

Prismatic crystals of gemmy green fluorapatite resting nicely on a matrix of quartz, chalcedony, and transparent globular aggregates of opal, that display an intense green fluorescence under short UV. All the surface is richly covered by white translucent calcite crystals.

Specimen #2016 from the collection of Wilfred Moorer (1945-2015), who traded it with Visser in 1976.

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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

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
White

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