Monazite

Orange brown monazite and yellow-white talc on blue-white dolomite
Origin: Talc quarry Trimouns, Luzenac, Ariège, France
Picture height: 10 mm
Sample owner: A. Schrander
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Pieter Stemvers, Leusden, Netherlands

email: stemvers@hetnet.nl

 

 
Monazite on lepidolite
Origin: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Monazite on muscovite
Origin: Brook's Farm, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Schafkar, Raurisertal, Salzburg, Austria
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
 
  
Origin: San Fermin vein, Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillo Province, Potos’ Department, Bolivia
Sample size: 3.6 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm (top), 6.6 x 6.4 x 4 cm (2nd/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Stoledalen, Iveland, Norway
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 1 cm
 
  
  
Crude monazite-(Ce) (microprobed Ce=Nd > Th) crystal root beer brownish red with internal yellow and orange hughes
  
Origin: Mocachaia, Alto Ligonha, Mozambique
Ex. Erling collection
Sample size: 3 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm (top/2nd row), 5 x 3.5 x 1 cm (bottom)
 
  
Monazite in carbonatite
Origin: Mona Lisa Claim, Ravalli Co., Montana, United States
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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