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Xenotime-(Y)

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Xenotime-(Y)

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 5.5 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

A very good orange brown xenotime-Y crystal sitting on a dark black aegirine crystal between feldspar crystals.

With nice small zircon crystals and minor pyrochlore and parisite-Ce.

Beautiful and rare.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Xenotime-(Y)

Formula: 
Y(PO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Hidra (Hitterø), Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder, Norway