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Synchysite-(Ce)

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Synchysite-(Ce)

ex Udo Harms collection, Found April 2007

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Description
Locality: 
Petersberg Quarry, Halle, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3 × 2.3 cm
Weight: 
28.00gr
Description

Typical specimen of petersberg quarry. The phonolite carry a lot of white to brownish albite crystals together with chlorite groups. Between this minerals are grown very nice translucente, orange brown synchisite cer crystalls.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Synchysite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca(Ce,La)(CO3)2F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20c
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland