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  • Quartz, fluorapatite, fluorite

Quartz, fluorapatite, fluorite

€38.00
A quartz cluster floater overgrown with other minerals
Akchatau, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
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A quartz cluster floater overgrown on one side with fine-grained yellow and green (chlorite?) mica, tiny, almost colourless apatite crystals, and thin colourless bertrandite crystals. The other side is covered with dark purple fluorite
AN_616
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Locality
Akchatau, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
Size category
Cabinet
Size (cm)
10 x 8 x 3
Weight
241 g
Formula
CaF2 (fluorite); Ca5(PO4)3F (fluorapatite); Be4(Si2O7)(OH)2 (bertrandite)
Properties
Vitreous; bluish black fluorite; translucent apatite and bertrandite