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Tritomite-(Y)

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Tritomite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Cardiff Uranium Mine, Cardiff Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 1 cm
Description

Brown resinous crystals of the very rare yttrium mineral tritomite-(Y) from a locality in Canada.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tritomite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Ca,La,Fe)5(Si,B,Al)3(O,OH,F)13
Strunz: 
9.AH.25
Hardness: 
3.5 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Unnamed prospect pit, Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada

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