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Kobeite-(Y)

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Kobeite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Shiraishi-yama, Kobe, Kyōtango City, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.4 × 1.8 cm
Description

Fine specimen with a band of black-brown kobeite-(Y).

Type locality specimen. Kobeite-(Y) is only known from a few localities worldwide.

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

Kobeite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Zr)2(Ti,Fe3+)2(O,OH)7
Strunz: 
4.DG.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Shiraishi-yama (Shiroishi), Kobe, Ohmiya town, Kyoto prefecture, Kinki region, Honshu Island, Japan

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