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Britholite-(Ce)

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Britholite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Laacher See, Glees, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.87 cm
Description

Superb sample hosting hexagonal britholite-Ce on sanidine matrix. 

W. Schüller specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Britholite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca2(Ce,Ca)3(SiO4,PO4)3(OH,F)
Strunz: 
9.AH.25
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Naujakasik (Naajakasik), Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland