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Uranopolycrase & Euxenite-(Y)

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Uranopolycrase & Euxenite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Medei Pegmatite, Claro, Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Fine and interesting specimen with some elongated uranopolycrase crystals with a creamy coating in association with a large euxenite-(Y) crystal aggregate (black core and also a whitish coating) and some greyish zircone. Comes with an interesting label on which the find date of 1998 and a reference to an article in lapis minerals magazine can be found.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uranopolycrase

Formula: 
(U4+,Y)(Ti,Nb)2O6
Strunz: 
4.DG.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Colour: 
Brown-red
Type Locality: 
Fonte del Prete, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell'Elba, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy...

Euxenite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Ca,Ce,U,Th)(Nb,Ti,Ta)2O6
Strunz: 
4.DG.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Undisclosed pegmatite, Jølster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

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