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Rhabdophane-(Ce)

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Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Petersberg Quarry, Halle, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

An excellent and very rare sample from the Petersberg Quarry with sharp dark greyish-green pseudo-hexagonal rhabdophane-(Ce) crystals pseudomorph after synchysite-(Ce) crystals on a bed of white albite crystals.

Just a handfull of these samples were collected.       

From my own collection.                                      

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK
Cartils Minerals

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