| Name: | Fluorapatite Fap |
| Specimens in Collection: |  #872: Fluorapatite Cerro de Mercado, Mexico  #1572: Fluorapatite Sapo Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil  #1571: Fluorapatite Sapo Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil  #73: Fluorapatite Canada  #804: Fluorapatite Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil  #942: Fluorapatite Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico  #46: Fluorapatite Durango, Mexico |
| IMA Chemistry: | Ca5(PO4)3F |
| Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Fluorapatite contains elements: Calcium (Ca) Phosphorus (P) Oxygen (O) Fluorine (F) |
| Country of Type Locality: | Austria / Germany / Spain / Switzerland |
| Year First Published: | 1786 |
| IMA Status: | Approved,Renamed |
| Status Notes: | Gerhards C A (1786) Erster Ahnung. Von einigen noch nicht genau bestimmten und ganz neu entdecken Mineralien, in Grundriss des Mineralsystems, Christian Friedrich Himburg (Berlin) 281-287 Name changed from apatite to fluorapatite: Rose G (1827) Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der Apatite. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 85, 185-214 Name changed from fluorapatite to apatite-(CaF): Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135 Name changed from apatite-(CaF) back to fluorapatite: Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 163-179 |
| Structural Group Name: | Apatite |
| Fleischer's Group Name: | apatite |
| Crystal Systems: | hexagonal|monoclinic |
| Oldest Known Age: | 2969 Million Years Ago |
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