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Komarovite & Rhabdophane-(Ce)

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Komarovite & Rhabdophane-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Natrolite Stock, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozero Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm
Description

Komarovite is a rare Ca-Nb-silicate mineral, occurs only at very few world localities. It forms white-pale pink platy pseudomorphs after vuonemmite, on natrolite matrix, in association with some pale yellow earthy rabdophane-(Ce). Natrolite Stock is the Type Locality for komarovite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Komarovite

Formula: 
(Ca,Mn)Nb2[O3|Si2O7]·3.5H2O
Strunz: 
9.CE.45
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Natrolite Stock (Pegmatite No. 61), Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(PO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CJ.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England, UK
Loranth Minerals

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