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Xenotime Zircon & Fluorite

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Xenotime Zircon & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.1 × 1.5 cm
Description

A fantastic combination of colours : salmon pink orthoclase crystals host three cube of purple fluorite, yellow needles of zircon that host orange prismatic crystals of xenotime

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic