Gagarinite-(Ce)

Locality: Strange Lake complex (Lac Brisson complex), Québec & Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Small, transparent, palest pink grain of zajacite in granite matrix, exhibiting conchoidal fracture characteristic of the species. This is relatively unaltered material; the mineral will become opaque and orange colored with increasing degrees of replacment by bastnaesite-(Ce). S134-08
0.4 cm field of view.
Excalibur Mineral Company specimen.

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