APATITE ROUGH FROM SOUTH AFRICA 282 CTS [MX2769]

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About This Auction		About This Seller: mineralgemworld
Minimum Bid (USD)	14.99	Feedback Rating	99.52% Positive
Current Bid (USD)	14.99	Member Since	1 Sep 2007 in Australia
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Starting Bid (USD)	14.99
Reserve Price (USD)	none
Starts	March 12, 2010 4:15 PM
Ends	March 14, 2010 5:15 PM	Basic Shipping Information
Auction Category	Apatite Gemstones	Shipping Cost	3.00 paid by buyer
Auction ID	100096	Shipping Insurance (optional)	7.00
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Description

APATITE ROUGH

This is a natural parcel of green/blue rough from south Africa that has been heat treated.There are some fractures in this parcel.

Weight 282 cts app

Size of largest piece 22x14 x11 mm app

Number of pieces.

Color is typically green but also yellow, blue, reddish brown and purple.

Luster is vitreous to greasy and gumdrop.

Transparency: Crystals are transparent to translucent.

Crystal System is hexagonal; 6/m

Crystal Habits include the typical hexagonal prism with the hexagonal pyramid or a pinacoid or both as a termination. Also accicular, granular, reniform and massive. A cryptocrystalline variety is called collophane and can make up a rock type called phosphorite and also can replace fossil fragments.

Cleavage is indistinct in one basal direction.

Fracture is conchoidal.

Hardness is 5.

Specific Gravity is approximately 3.1 - 3.2 (average for translucent minerals)

Streak is white.

More Information

Certified Gemstones: no

Bidding History


Member	Bid	Time & Date
NINAMCC	14.99	March 14, 2010 10:30:47 AM

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