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Samarskite-(Y)

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Samarskite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Pegmatite Area, Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

This is nearly a pure piece of samarskite-(Y). These is a small section of monazite-(Ce) present. Otherwise it's all samarskite-(Y). The outside of the specimen has been weathered, but the interior has been revealed via chips to the exterior.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Samarskite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Fe3+,Fe2+,U,Th,Ca)2(Nb,Ta)2O8
Strunz: 
4.DB.25
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Blyumovskaya Pit (Blum Pit; Pit No. 50), Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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