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Samarskite-(Y)

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Description
Locality: 
Ilmen Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

Very good specimen with a well-formed black samarskite-(Y) crystal aggregate about 1.3 cm in size. Comes with a beautiful old collection label from the Royal Saxon Mineral Deposit in Freiberg. The label is from the period 1880-1920. Top specimen, rarely offered.

Specimen comes from the type locality for samarskite-(Y).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Samarskite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Y,Fe3+,Fe2+,U,Th,Ca)2(Nb,Ta)2O8
Strunz: 
4.DB.25
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Blyumovskaya Pit (Blum Pit; Pit No. 50), Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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