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1 item @ $25.00   30:00

Carbonate Apatite after Vivianite with Calcite

#PD32618

Carbonate Apatite after Vivianite with Calcite

#PD32618
Availability
Sold
Size
6.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm - Sm Cabinet 
Formula
Unavailable
Locality
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

This is just an odd psuedo of opaque-white Carbonate rich Apatite replacing 2cm bladed crystals of what could have been Vivianite or possibly just Gypsum, with clear Calcite crystals and dendrites of some oxide coating the pseudos and some of the spongy matrix. Ugly, but odd :)

Collection
Phillips Collection

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