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Gadolinite from
Petrick pegmatite, Kingsland Granite Company quarry (Petrick quarry), Llano Co., Texas, USA

Description
Comments:	This material is actually transparent very dark green. It also displays an unusually high paramagnetism and can be picked up by a Nd-Fe-B "supermagnet".
Habit:	Amorphous, metamict
Colour:	Greenish-Black
UV Fluorescence:	None
Quality of samples:	Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Confirmation
Validity:	Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:	SEM-EDS
References
References:	Self-collected by Franklin Roberts.; Arthur Smith, Frank Roberts, Denise Bicknell (2008) Mineral News, 24, #1, 6-7.
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Gadolinite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Petrick pegmatite, Kingsland Granite Company quarry (Petrick quarry), Llano Co., Texas, USA
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