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Loparite-(Ce)

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Loparite-(Ce)

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Locality: 
Kaskasnyunchorr Mountain, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Some beautiful, black, sharp, twinned crystals of loparite-(Ce), the bigger group measuring up to 8 mm. Together is present in the sample few  reddish crystalline eudyalite. Very good sample.

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What's on the rock

Loparite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Na,Ce,Ca,Sr,Th)(Ti,Nb,Fe)O3
Strunz: 
4.CC.35
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Maly Mannepakhk Mt (Malyi Mannepakhk Mt), Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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