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Bastnäsite-(Ce)

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Bastnäsite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

specimen with some very nice yellowish crystals of bastnaesite-(Ce) on matrix.

c. 2365

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bastnäsite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(CO3)F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Bastnäs mines, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, Sweden

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