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Anapaite

Hydrated Calcium Iron Phosphate

Green quiet of forgotten shorelines.

Chakra

Heart

Element

Water · Earth

Zodiac

Cancer · Virgo

Anapaite

I. The Metaphysical Reading

How the stone has been held.

Anapaite is spoken of as a stone of quiet emotional restoration, drawn on by those recovering from long attention to the needs of others. Practitioners place it at the heart during periods of convalescence and read its soft green as the return of appetite for one's own life, patient and unhurried.

Chakra
Heart
Element
Water · Earth
Zodiac
Cancer · Virgo
Keynote
Green quiet of forgotten shorelines.

II. The Scientific Reading

What the lattice actually does.

Anapaite is a hydrated calcium-iron phosphate that crystallises in the triclinic system, most often as tabular green crystals within brown-iron ore concretions and clay ironstones. First described in 1902 from the Anapa district on the Kerch Peninsula, it forms by low-temperature alteration of iron phosphate nodules, its colour arising from ferrous iron in octahedral coordination.

Formula
Ca₂Fe²⁺(PO₄)₂·4H₂O
System
Triclinic
Hardness
3.5 (Mohs)
Provenance
Bulgaria (Kertch), Spain, Italy, Ukraine

References & Sources

Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.

Mineral Profile

Fact Sheet

Chemical Formula
Ca₂Fe²⁺(PO₄)₂·4H₂O
Crystal System
Triclinic
Mohs Hardness
3.5 (Mohs)
Density
2.81 g/cm³
Refractive Index
1.602 – 1.628
Provenance
Bulgaria (Kertch), Spain, Italy, Ukraine
Color Origin
Pale to bright grass-green from ferrous iron

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