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Lessingite-(Ce)

Lustre:AdamantineHardness:5
Name:After F. Loewinson-Lessing, Russian petrologist.
Synonym of:Britholite-(Ce)


Originally reported from Mochalin Log (Motchaline-log), Kyshtym (Kychtym; Kishtim), Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia.

References for Lessingite-(Ce)

Reference List:Silberminz (1929) Comptes rendus de l’académie des sciences de l’U.R.S.S., series A, 55 (seminal article).

New Mineral Names, American Mineralogist (1930): 15: 242.

Mineralogical Magazine (1957): 31: 455.

Acta Crystallographica A37 (1981), C-188.

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 191 (1990), 249.

Burke, Ernest A.J. (2007) A Mass Discreditation of GQN Minerals. Canadian Mineralogist: 44(6): 1557-1560.

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    Localities for Lessingite-(Ce)

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    Brazil
     
    • Southeast Region
      • Minas Gerais
    		Chris D. Parkinson et al. , " Ultrahigh-pressure pyrope-kyanite granulites and associated eclogites in Neoproterozoic nappes of southeast Brazil", 2001, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, http://akmotoki.tripod.com/2001/Waseda/Cdp.html
    Kazakhstan
     
    Russia
     
    • Urals Region
      • Southern Urals
        • Chelyabinsk Oblast'
          • Kyshtym (Kychtym; Kishtim)
    		Min Mag 31 (1957), 455
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    • Småland
      • Jönköping
        • Gränna
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