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Biraite-(Ce)

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Biraite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Ust'-Biraya, Vitim Plateau, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.2 × 0.1 cm
Description

Brown grains of biraite-(Ce) in association with minor yellow cordylite-(Ce) and green-blue elongated actinolite. Specimen from type locality. Biraite-(Ce) is only known from two localities worldwide. Analysed specimen, ex. Pavel Kartashov. Very rare.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Biraite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ce2Fe2+(Si2O7)(CO3)
Strunz: 
9.BE.90
Hardness: 
5.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Ust'-Biraya, Biraya Fe-REE ore occurrence, Biraya and Bya Rivers confluence area (Chara Basin), Vitim Plateau, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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