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Euxenite-(Y) Fluorite & Zircon

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Euxenite-(Y) Fluorite & Zircon

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Description
Locality: 
Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm
Description

a purple fluorite crystal hosts some opaque, light brown flat crystals of euxenite-Y ; in the same vug, filled with salmon pink orthoclase crystals there is also a tuft of yellow zircon crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Euxenite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Ca,Ce,U,Th)(Nb,Ti,Ta)2O6
Strunz: 
4.DG.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Undisclosed pegmatite, Jølster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Zircon

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