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Chernovite-(Y)

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Chernovite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Wanni Glacier, Monte Cervandone, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2 × 1.8 cm
Description

Cloudlike structured yellow arsenate chernovite Y accompanied by hematite and rutile.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chernovite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y(AsO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Nyarta-Syu-Yu River, Tel'pos-Iz Mt, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia...