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Aluminocerite-(Ce)

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Aluminocerite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Seula Mine, Mount Camoscio, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

A group of pink spheres and crystals of this extremely rare minerals known in few localities in the world; self collected on 2012; XRD probed

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aluminocerite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La,Ca)9(Al,Fe3+)(SiO4)3(HSiO4)4(OH)3
Strunz: 
9.AG.20
Hardness: 
5.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy