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Lanthanite-(Ce)

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Lanthanite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Britannia Mine, Mount Snowdon, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.2 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with hundreds of tiny pink crystals of lanthanite-Ce from the type localty. A rare type locality specimen. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lanthanite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La,Nd)2(CO3)3·8H2O
Strunz: 
5.CC.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Britannia Mine (Snowdon Mine), Mt Snowdon, Gwynedd (Caernarvonshire), Wales, UK

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