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Aeschynite-(Y) Hingganite-(Y) & Polycrase

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Aeschynite-(Y) Hingganite-(Y) & Polycrase

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Description
Locality: 
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 5.5 × 3.9 cm
Description

An orange aeschynite crystal on quarz ; in another vug two hingganite , light yellow crystals and minor polycrase; good possibility to reduce the item and find other vugs inside with various minerals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aeschynite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Ca,Fe,Th)(Ti,Nb)2(O,OH)6
Strunz: 
4.DF.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Urstad Feldspar Mine, Hidra (Hitterø), Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder, Norway