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Cerite-(Ce)

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Cerite-(Ce)

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

specimen with a tiny pink (fuxia) crystal of the extremely rare (to Agua de Pau) cerite-(Ce) on matrix.

this is the only available specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cerite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,Ca)9(Mg,Fe)(SiO4)3(HSiO4)4(OH)3
Strunz: 
9.AG.20
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
St Görans Mine, Bastnäs mines, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, Sweden

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