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Synchysite-(Ce) & Anatase

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Synchysite-(Ce) & Anatase

ex Americo Urbinati collection

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Description
Locality: 
Galenstock, Tiefenbach, Urseren, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

some hexagonal prismatic synchysite-(Ce) crystals on quartz with numerous honey brown anatase crystals 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Synchysite-(Ce)

Formula: 
Ca(Ce,La)(CO3)2F
Strunz: 
5.BD.20c
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Narsaarsuk pegmatite (Narssârssuk pegmatite), Narsaarsuk Plateau, Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

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...