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Batievaite-(Y) Mieite-(Y) Rinkite

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Batievaite-(Y) Mieite-(Y) Rinkite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipawa, Sheffield Lake, Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Straw-yellow batievaite-(Y), meieite-(Y) and rinkite on pink crystalline villiaumite. Rare.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Batievaite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y2Ca2Ti(Si2O7)2(OH)2(H2O)4
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5 - 5½
Colour: 
Pale cream
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sakharjok Massif (Sakhariok Massif; Sakharjok deposit), Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Mieite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y4Ti(SiO4)2O[F,(OH)]6
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Unnamed pegmatite, Yunoyama-onsen, Komono town, Mie Prefecture, Kinki region, Honshu Island, Japan

Rinkite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca)3(Ca,Ce)4Ti(Si2O7)2OF3
Strunz: 
9.00.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Kangerluarsuk Fjord (Kangerdluarssuq Fjord), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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