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Tourmaline With Apatite & Cookeite

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Description
Locality: 
Pulsifer Quarry, Mount Apatite, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.2 × 2 cm
Description

Fine and colourful specimen with an intense dark green tourmaline crystal in association with lots of violet apatite. The matrix is rich of pale creamy cookeite.

The specimen comes from the collection of Dr. G. Jung.

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USA customers: Low-priced shipping is back - usually only €12 (may vary for larger minerals).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 

A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z

Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

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

Cookeite

Formula: 
(Al2Li)Al2(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Mount Mica Quarry (Mount Mica Mine), Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, USA

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Postage Area Price
Germany (insured parcel)
€6.50
Worldwide (tracked)
€10
USA (tracked)
€12
USA (tracked, > 0,5 kg)
€22
European Union (tracked, > 1 kg)
€18
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