Aeschynite

1 mm tabular crystal of aechynite-(Y). The matrix consists of albite, quartz and muscovite.

Origin: Val. Pellice, Piedmont, Italy

Sample size: 5 x 2.7 cm

Origin: Frigstad, Iveland, Norway, Europe

Sample size: 1.3 x 1 x 0.7 cm

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Minerals Co

Black-brown massive crystal fragment aeschynite-(Y) var. blomstrandine

Origin: Kabuland, Norway

Sample size: 2 x 3 x 3.5 cm

Brown crystalline with minor biotite

Origin: Mewry, Maine, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.5 x 5.5 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Diederik Visser

Optical properties/Thin sections: A-(Ce), A-(Nd), A-(Y)

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