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Fluorapatite from
Roadside Arad ā€“ Dead Sea, Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roadside Arad ā€“ Dead Sea, Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1741835
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1741835:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
0.9km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Paralava occurrence, Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Mazorite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
1.8km (1.1 miles) ā“˜FerroĆ„kermanite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
2.2km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Har Parsa (Mt. Parsa), Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
2.2km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Hanswilkeite type locality, Naįŗ–al Gorer, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
3.3km (2.0 miles) ā“˜Paralava outcrops, Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
3.3km (2.1 miles) ā“˜Halamish Quarry, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
3.4km (2.1 miles) ā“˜Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
3.4km (2.1 miles) ā“˜Tsomet Hatrurim, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
References
Galuskin, Evgeny; Galuskina, Irina O.; Kamenetsky, Vadim; Vapnik, Yevgeny; Kusz, Joachim; Zieliński, Grzegorz (2022) First In Situ Terrestrial Osbornite (TiN) in the Pyrometamorphic Hatrurim Complex, Israel. Lithosphere, 2022 (1). 8127747 doi:10.2113/2022/8127747
Galuskin, Evgeny V.; Kusz, Joachim; Galuskina, Irina O.; Vapnik, Yevgeny; Zieliński, Grzegorz (2025) Yamhamelachite, KCrP2O7, a new natural pyrophosphate from phosphide-bearing breccia of the Hatrurim Complex, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 89 (5). 664-674 doi:10.1180/mgm.2025.27
 
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