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Synchysite-(Ce) & Anatase

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Synchysite-(Ce) & Anatase

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Adra, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 2.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

Beautiful specimen of pale yellow synchisite-Ce and red-brown anatase crystals on a bed of gemmy albite crystals.

Very nice under the microscope.

Collected 2006

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Synchysite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca(Ce,La)(CO3)2F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20c
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...