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Apatite On Evansite

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Apatite On Evansite

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.7 × 2.1 cm
Description

Pale blue spheres of apatite on botyroidal granular evansite from a one off find at Toms Quarry

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Apatite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Fluorapatite

Formula: 
Ca2Ca3(PO4)3F
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0

Hydroxylapatite

Formula: 
Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5

Evansite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)(OH)6·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DF.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Železník (Vashegy), Sirk, Revúca Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
Earthstones Australia

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