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Gagarinite-(Y)

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Gagarinite-(Y)

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Locality: 
Gjerdingselva, Nordmarka, Lunner, Viken, Norway
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 4.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

A well developed and well terminated, pink coloured, prismatic gagarinite-(Y) crystal, 0.8 mm in size, is set in a vug in ekerite rock. Beside the gagarinite crystal the vug is filled with brown coloured monazite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gagarinite-(Y)

Formula: 
NaCaYF6
Strunz: 
3.AB.35
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Verkhnee Espe Massif (Verkhnee Espe deposit), Akzhaylyautas Mts (Akzhailyautas Mts; Akjaylautas Mts; Akzhalautas Mts), Tarbagatai Range, Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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