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Rhabdophane-(Ce) & Bismuthinite

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Rhabdophane-(Ce) & Bismuthinite

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Description
Locality: 
Marsanges Mine, Marsanges, Langeac, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 0.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

Very nice rosette of faintly-pink, tabular, hexagonal crystals of rhabdophane- (Ce), together with metallic, aciculars bismuthinite crystals. Good sample.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK

Bismuthinite

Formula: 
Bi2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
Lead-gray

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