Entry № 020
Anapaite
Hydrated Calcium Iron Phosphate
Green quiet of forgotten shorelines.
Chakra
Heart
Element
Water · Earth
Zodiac
Cancer · Virgo

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
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
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