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GeneralApatite group member from Dashkesan, Dashkasan District, Azerbaijan
13th Feb 2021 17:01 UTCJeff Krueger
I am trying to properly label a recently purchased specimen of the apatite group from Dashkesan Co-Fe deposit, Dashkesan, Dashkasan District, Azerbaijan. The Mindat locality page lists chlorapatite for the locality. Moore's Compendium on p599 says of Dashkesan 'apatite', "Although sometimes labeled chlorapatite, the crystals from Dashkesan have been found to be chlorine-bearing fluorapatite" Moore sites Leybov, 2013.
Is there a current consensus about whether the Dashkesan 'apatite' is chlorapatite or fluorapatite?
Thank you for your help.
13th Feb 2021 21:02 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
But by the same token, I've also found numerous examples of chlorian amphiboles, and even a few examples of quite Cl-enriched potassic-chloro-hastingsites (where Cl > 1 apfu), from many of these same localities. But I've also never found the essentially end-member potassic-chloro-hastingsite (Cl at ~2 apfu; the former "dashkesanite") reported from Dashkesan. So it's possible that Dashkesan, even among the broader family of global IOCG occurrences, is an environment especially conducive to extreme Cl-enrichment in the silicates (and apatite).
I suspect at the moment you may have to be satisfied with a label of "Cl-enriched apatite" (which seems like a reasonable selection and covers both species possibilities), pending an analysis to determine a more precise name.
20th Feb 2021 07:36 UTCJeff Krueger
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