| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Hydroxylapatite |
| Formula: | Ca5(PO4)3(OH) |
| Quality for species: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Hornblende Root Name Group | 26 photos of Hydroxylapatite associated with Hornblende Root Name Group at this locality. |
| Albite | ⓘ15 photos of Hydroxylapatite associated with Albite at this locality. |
| Amphibole Supergroup | 4 photos of Hydroxylapatite associated with Amphibole Supergroup at this locality. |
| Quartz | ⓘ4 photos of Hydroxylapatite associated with Quartz at this locality. |
| Prehnite | 1 photo of Hydroxylapatite associated with Prehnite at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Hydroxylapatite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Oksøyekollen, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (42 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 86426 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:86426:8 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | ab078dd5-5ebe-4c75-9fb2-48c5ee19cca2 |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locality in Norway, and possibly in all of Scandinavia, is Oksøyekollen apatittbrudd, Snarum. However,... specimens found here are dominantly hydroxylapatite with chemical variation among OH, Cl, and F. Nordrum...probe microanalyses of apatite crystals from Oksøyekollen that indicate compositional zoning. Outer portions...the opaque white crystals were found to be hydroxylapatite with a significant amount of F, while the core...locality of chlorapatite but has also produced hydroxylapatite and fluorapatite. Likewise, the Ødegården apatite |
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Oksøyekollen, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway