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Monazite-(Ce) & Zircon Var Alvite

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Monazite-(Ce) & Zircon Var Alvite

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Description
Locality: 
Tveit #3 Feldspar Quarry, Iveland, Agder, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Cluster of tabular orange monazite-(Ce) crystals with good lustre associated to brown euhedral zircon of the variety alvite. According to the associated information it was collected at the Steli pegmatite (Tveit 3 Quarry).

Collected by J.Sibtsen in 1975-77. Ex Jan Sibtsen #2773.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Monazite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La,Nd,Th)(PO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.50
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

Alvite

Variety Of: 

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Hardness: 
7.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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