Variety of Apatite

Chlorapatite

Chlorapatite
Individual member mineral of the Apatite group with chlorine being dominant in its structure. For a short period of time, it was renamed by the IMA as Apatite-(CaCl), but is now again favored again as Chlorapatite.

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