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Monazite-(Ce)

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Description
Locality: 
Dötra, Camperio, Santa Maria Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 4 × 3.3 cm
Description

This is a very old monazite-Ce specimen - collected November 1882 - with beautiful yellow, gemmy monazite-Ce crystals on a gemmy quartz crystal.

Very good and interesting specimen with two nice old labels.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...