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Fluocerite-(Ce)

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Fluocerite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Høydalen, Tørdal, Drangedal, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.4 × 2.8 cm
Description

An 0.9 x 0.5 cm aggregate of brick-like coloured fluocerite Ce is embedded in an unidentified grey-greenish mineral (yttrofluorite?). Both are rimmed by dark purple coloured fluorite. The whole is set a white matrix of cleavelandite. Very interesting material from the Høydalen lithium pegmatite. Collected in 1995.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluocerite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)F3
Strunz: 
3.AC.15
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
Off-white
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

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