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Laplandite-(Ce)

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Laplandite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozero Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 2.3 × 2 cm
Description

Greyish-white crystals of the very rare mineral  laplandite-(Ce) from the type locality and only one of the two known localities worldwide.

Associated minerals are zorite(TL), terskite(TL) and eudialyte. Three type locality minerals in a single specimen.

Ex.F.Bauer collection with label included.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Laplandite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Na4CeTiPO4Si7O18·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.DJ.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Yubileinaya pegmatite (Yubileinoye; Jubilejnaja), Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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