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Pyrochlore

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Pyrochlore

Radioactive

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Description
Locality: 
Saga #1 Quarry, Sagåsen, Mørje, Porsgrunn, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 6.6 × 1.1 cm
Description

A reddish-brown pegmatite specimen from the Langesundsfjord region is throughout disseminated with numerous small black/grey metallic grains of pyrochlore up to about 3 mm in size, a few of them showing crystal shape. The specimen is slightly radioactive.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrochlore

Synonym Of: 

Pyrochlore Group

Formula: 
A2Nb2(O,OH)6Z
Strunz: 
4
Hardness: 
5 - 5.5
Group Parent: 
Pyrochlore Group

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