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Stetindite & Bastnäsite-(Ce)

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Stetindite & Bastnäsite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Stetind Pegmatite, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.4 × 0.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a brilliant group of yellowish needles of extremely rare new mineral stetindite-Ce with a very nice zoned crystal of bastnasite-Ce. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stetindite

Formula: 
Ce4+SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Stetind pegmatite, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway

Bastnäsite-(Ce)

Formula: 
(Ce,La)(CO3)F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Bastnäs mines, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, Sweden

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