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Tritomite-(Ce)

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Tritomite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

A 1.1 cm brown coloured high lustrous aggregate of tritomite-(Ce) is embedded in a matrix of feldspar with aegirine, natrolite and some catapleiite?

There is an old label glued on the specimen from 1880.

The specimen is from the estate of Dr. Ehmke, ZGI-Berlin (Zentrales Geologisches Institut, GDR).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tritomite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La,Y,Th)5(Si,B)3(O,OH,F)13
Strunz: 
9.AH.25
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Låven (Skådön; Lamö; Lamanskjaer), Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

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