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Aeschynite-(Y)

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Aeschynite-(Y)

With antique label
Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Hidra, Flekkefjord, Agder, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm
Description

Named as blomstrandine in 1906 in honor of Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand, the mineral was later renamed Aeschynite-(Y) by the IMA. Cluster of brown intergrown crystals of blomstrandine/aeschynite-Y from the Type Locality. Comes with an old Maucher label.

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aeschynite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Ca,Fe,Th)(Ti,Nb)2(O,OH)6
Strunz: 
4.DF.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Urstad Feldspar Mine, Hidra (Hitterø), Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder, Norway
Cartils Minerals

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