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Vicanite-(Ce)

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Vicanite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Tre Croci, Vetralla, Vico Lake, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm
Description

Fine specimen with an exquisitely formed yellow-greenish vicanite-(Ce) crystal contrasting on light matrix.

Type locality specimen. Vicanite(Ce) 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

Vicanite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ca,Ce,La,Th)15As5+(As3+0.5,Na0.5)Fe3+Si6B4O40F7
Strunz: 
9.AJ.35
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tre Croci, Vetralla, Vico Lake, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy

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