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Fluorapatite & Tsavorite

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Fluorapatite & Tsavorite

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Description
Locality: 
Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania (United Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with some really nice, unusual green elongated crystals of tsavorite on graphite matrix with one very nice tabular blue fluorpatite crystal. There is also a colorless diopside prism and pyrite cubes. Very aesthetic sample under magnification. 

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

Tsavorite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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