About Blue Apatite  –

Blue apatite is a calcium phosphate, usually fluorapatite, in shades from teal to bright neon blue. Much tumbled blue apatite comes from Madagascar.

It forms in many igneous and metamorphic rocks, and large crystals grow in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.

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Cool Facts  –

Apatite is named from the Greek apate, deceit, because it was so often mistaken for other gems.

It is the same mineral family as the calcium phosphate in your teeth and bones.

It is the standard for hardness 5 on the Mohs scale.

Apatite marks 5 on the Mohs hardness scale, and its name comes from the Greek apatein, to deceive, as it was often mistaken for other minerals.

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