Other Minerals from the Supergroup of Apatite

Abstract

The supergroup of apatite is divided into five groups of minerals. Therefore, minerals from the group of apatite were described in the first chapter, the second chapter of this book continues with description of minerals from the other four groups, i.e. minerals from the group of britholite, belovite, ellestadite and hedyphane. The structure, properties and known localities of these minerals were described. "lthough carbonateapatite species are discredited from the IM" list of minerals, the chapter ends with description of structure and properties of carbonate-hydroxylapatite, carbonatefluorapatite, and carbonate-rich varieties of apatite, i.e. francolite, dahlite, kurskite and collophane. The introduced three basic types of carbonate-apatites, i.e. type ", " and "" are then discussed in Chapter in depth.