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Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

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Multiple photos availableAnapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Image is 14mm wide.
Slightly curved subparallel aggregate of clear light-green anapaite crystals.
Acquired 2003.

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Photo & collection: D. Schläfli

Mindat.org Photo of the Day - 27th Jul 2006
 © 2004 D. SchläfliPhoto ID: 20420    View Count: 1177

Multiple photos availableAnapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

The shell is about 1.8 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm.
Another anapaite "on the half shell".
But this one has a stereo child photo.
Sept 2009: Replaced parent and stereo pair with macro using stacking.
Photo ID: 177154    View Count: 185

Anapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Anapaite crystals on limonite, size 7x5.5 cm. Gerard van der Veldt collection and photo.
 © G. van der VeldtPhoto ID: 108155    View Count: 147

Multiple photos availableAnapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Nice Anapaite crystals with an excellent color and luster, more isolated than usual, which have grown inside a fossil bivalve shell.
Kerch peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine.
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.7 × 2.5 cm
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
 © fabreminerals.comPhoto ID: 194458    View Count: 90

Anapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Picture Width = 40 mm
 © Elmar LacknerPhoto ID: 42550    View Count: 434

Multiple photos availableAnapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Field of view 22 mm. Collection M. Kampf No 90-173.
 © 2006 M. KampfPhoto ID: 50360    View Count: 301

Anapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Gorgeous, GEMMY and translucent rosettes of anapaite crystals that have formed inside fossil clams in a bizarre phosphate pod deposit! This locality is now mined through and specimens are hard to obtain. These crystals are to 1 cm in size. 6 x 2.8 x 4 cm

 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 112795    View Count: 153

Anapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Originating in the cast of a mollusk, is this lovely, translucent, green spherical cluster of the rare phosphate anapaite. It is extremely uncommon and found at its best in teh fossil shells from this deposit, now mined through and gone. The calcium and phosphate needed to form this species are both derived from the original shell material. This ...
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 36853    View Count: 365

Anapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

Anapaite
31x24mm
 © Pécsi Tivadar 2007Photo ID: 101030    View Count: 222

Anapaite : Ca2Fe2+[PO4]2 · 4H2O

Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

4.1 x 2.7 x 1.7 cm. Anapaite is a rare phosphate. This showy and excellent specimen features lustrous, gemmy, sea-green anapaite crystals to 1.3 cm aesthetically set in a fossilized mollusk shell from the famous Kerch Peninsula of the Ukraine, near the Black Sea.
 © Rob LavinskyPhoto ID: 180756    View Count: 70

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