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Euxenite-(Y)

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Euxenite-(Y)

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Locality: 
Sri Lanka
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Floater well-defined black crystals of euxenite-(Y), the bigger of 11 mm in length, formed by crystal faces or contacted faces where the matrix was.

It comes with two original handwritten label from Ennio Contarini, Italian collector who built an important collection in the early 1900’s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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