Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Parisite-(Ce) On Smoky Quartz

Views:
Watches:
CR153112

Parisite-(Ce) On Smoky Quartz

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13 × 6 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.50cm
Description

A huge and really superb terminated parisite-Ce with creamy color sitting on a smoky quartz crystal.

Very good specimen from Armin Wendland collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Parisite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca(Ce,La)2(CO3)3F2
Strunz: 
5.BD.20b
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Mun. de Muzo, Vasquez-Yacopí Mining District, Boyacá Department, Colombia

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0