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Apatite

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Apatite

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Description
Locality: 
Gandahab, Ghalanai, Chārsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.7 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a fine cluster of tabular, almost gemmy and modified hexagonal crystals of Apatite from the alpinotype cleft deposit at Ganadao.The fine slightly olive, but mostly colourless crystals are rich of faces, partly rounded and complementig the super luster. Naturally, the cluster is contacted at the bottom where it was mined out of the deposit. Most of the prism faces are included with very slender, mm-long green crystals, perhaps actinolite what gives the hint ov olive green colour. Super and largely complete.

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
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