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Françoisite-(Ce)

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Françoisite-(Ce)

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
La Creusa, Les Marécottes, Le Trient Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.4 × 2 cm
Description

Excellent and richly decorated specimen with yellow acicular francoisite-(Ce) crystal tufts.

Type locality specimen. Francoisite-(Ce) is only known from two localities worldwide. Rare mineral.

From the collection of Luc VANDENBERGHE, longtime mindat member and famous Belgian u-mineral collector. Specimen of a very well kept collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Françoisite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,Nd,Ca)(UO2)3(PO4)2O(OH)·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.EC.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
La Creusa U prospect (La Creusaz U prospect), Les Marécottes, Le Trient Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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