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Tengerite-(Y) & Yttrialite-(Y)

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Tengerite-(Y) & Yttrialite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Baringer Hill, Bluffton, Llano County, Texas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 0.9 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a smattering of light pink tengerite-Y crystals as an alteration product on a broken yttrialite-Y/gadolinite-Ce crystal fragment. Very rare and ID work done at the AMNH, and formerly from the museum's collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tengerite-(Y)

Formula: 
Y2(CO3)3·2-3H2O
Strunz: 
5.CC.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Ytterby, Resarö, Vaxholm, Uppland, Sweden

Yttrialite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Th)2Si2O7
Strunz: 
9.BC.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Baringer Hill (Barringer Hill), Bluffton, Llano Co., Texas, USA

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