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Bazzite With Xenotime

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QRI777544

Bazzite With Xenotime

Former collection Lehmann (CH)
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Fibbia, Fontana, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm
Weight: 
13.00gr
Description

Two very rare blue textbook bazzite crystals proudly crop out of an adularia group whilst surrounded by a dozen creamy stilbite bowties. Bazzite crystals are in excellent conditions, very lustrous and gemmy. On the opposide side of the specimen, a pale orange elongated xenotime crystal, very lustrous and gemmy, stands close to a small iron rose. Best appreciated at 10x magnification. Contrastful, a true pleasure to look at.

Bazzite is a very rare scandium beryl, and Fibbia is among the top occurrences worldwide.

The specimen comes from the Lehmann collection (CH), thus collected at some point in the 80s.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bazzite

Formula: 
Be3Sc2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

Xenotime

Synonym Of: 

Xenotime-(Y)

Formula: 
Y(PO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.35
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0

Xenotime-(Yb)

Formula: 
(Yb,Y,HREE)(PO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.35
Hardness: 
0.0

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