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Monazite

Ex Alex Franz coll., ex Chr. Rewitzer
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 6.5 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
172.00gr
Description

Piece of "Miassite"-rock hosting two in-grown, well-defined crystals of monazite. The Ilmen mountains, Urals Region, Russia are the type locality for monazite-(Ce).
Slight radioactive due to U and Th content of the monazite (appr. 1,9 micro Sv/h within spitting distance).

Comes with two old labels and on-glued corresponding number sticker. One label is from Alex Franz collection and the other from Heinz Müller - Hamburger Mineralien Kontor, Hamburg, Germany (where Franz was customer).
Alexander Franz was born in Göttingen in 1906. He became interested in minerals at an early age, and built a personal collection which unfortunately was lost during the chaos of the war years. Nevertheless, he built up a substantial new mineral collection following the war. He died in Meerbusch, near Düsseldorf, on October 25, 2000. His collection was purchased by the mineral dealer Christian Rewitzer in Furth im Wald, and the specimens were then sold off individually.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Monazite

Group Parent: 
Monazite Group

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