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Fluorbritholite-(Ce)

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Fluorbritholite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Jamestown, Boulder County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.2 × 0.4 cm
Description

Fluorbritholite-(Ce) forms purplish brown masses with some pegmatite matrix. Confirmed material, the tests shows that fluorbritholite-(Ce) also contains submicroscopic grains of fluorite and uraninite. The specimen is moderately radioactive.

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Fluorbritholite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca2(Ce,Ca)3(SiO4,PO4)3(F,OH)
Strunz: 
9.AH.25
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Loranth Minerals

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