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Anatase & Monazite-(Ce)

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Anatase & Monazite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Yates Brooks Farm, Lattimore, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with several nice clusters of dark blue anatase crystals with rutile needles on muscovite crystals. One vug also hosts a very transparent, sharp monazite-Ce crystal. This locality is now closed to collecting! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anatase

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DD.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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...

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