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Mosandrite

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Mosandrite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Kipawa, Sheffield Lake, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 5.5 × 3 cm
Description

Brown massive and some crudely developed crystals of mosandrite, with red eudialyte, and minor black magnesiokataphorite in white albite. The albite flouresces red in SWUV. The piece weighs just under 250g.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mosandrite

Formula: 
(◻,Ca,Na)3(Ca,REE)4Ti(Si2O7)2[H2O,OH,F]4·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BE.20
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Låven (Skådön; Lamö; Lamanskjaer), Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

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