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Zajacite-(Ce)


Zajacite-(Ce) : Na(REExCa1-x)(REEyCa1-y)F6

Photo Copyright © 2008, Jeffrey G. Weissman  - This image is copyrighted. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
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).
0.4 cm field of view.
Excalibur Mineral specimen.

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