Allanite-(Ce)

Black allanite-(Ce) in monzonite rock

Origin: Plauenscher Grund, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 5.2 cm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

Brown prismatic crystals of allanite-(Ce)

Origin: Oßling Quarry, Kamenz, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 1.4 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

Allanite-(Ce) in granite

Origin: Granite quarry, Naundorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 10 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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Allanite and smoky quartz in pegmatite matrix

Origin: Capitan, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Sample size: 9 x 6 x 5 cm, allanite crystals to 1.2 cm, smoky quartz to 1.5 cm

 

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Origin: Mina Tiro Estrella, Capitan Mts., Lincoln Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Pacoima Canyon, Los Angeles Co., California, U.S.A.

Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Sample size: crystal about 6 cm

 

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Origin: Trimouns, Luzenac, France

Sample size: 8 x 5 x 3.5 cm

 

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Origin: Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, France

Sample size: 2.5 x 3.5 cm specimen with 1 cm cluster of translucent brown allanite crystals. Several terminated crystals up to 5 mm long (top), 4 x 4 specimen. 1 cm long, olive brown, terminated allanite crystal (bottom)

 

  

Allanite on dolomite

Origin: Trimmouns Mine, Luzenac, France

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 cm

 

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