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Parisite-(Ce) With Aegirine

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Parisite-(Ce) With Aegirine

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm
Description

Exceptional, impressively high quality specimen from a locality that has given very big well defined crystals for the species!The piece is mainly one big fat single crystal with some aegirine spears around it!The crystal is skeletal, with a hollow termination and step growth faces!Looks like brown sugar made for the color and the luster!The piece is beautiful and undamaged all around and even the bottom is not broken off but contacted to the base!

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

Aegirine

Formula: 
NaFe3+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway

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