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Iimoriite-(Y)

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Iimoriite-(Y)

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Drag, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

specimen with a beautiful tabular pink crystal of the extremely rare Iimoriite-(Y) with associate a tabular exagomal pink crystal of bastnaesite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Iimoriite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y2[SiO4][CO3]
Strunz: 
9.AH.05
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Colour: 
Buff-tan
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Suishoyama pegmatite (Suishouyama; Suisyoyama; Suishyoyama), Iizaka Village (Iisaka), Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

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