Synchysite

Origin: Kaiserer quarry, Raurisertal, Salzburg, Austria
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Brown hexagonal crystals of synchysite-(Ce)
Origin: Petersberg Quarry, Petersberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Picture size: 9 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Small thin tabular crystals of synchysite-(Y)
Origin: Cuasso al Monte, Ceresio Valley, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Picture size: 3 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Well develloped lightbrown hexagonal crystals of synchysite-(Ce)
Origin: Petersberg near Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Sample size: 2 x 2 x 3 cm matrix
 
Tan to grey thin platy crystals in vug
Origin: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 1.5 x 1.5 cm
 
Reddish-brown massive in magnetite and quartz
Origin: Scrub Oak Mine, Dover, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 6 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

Origin: Manod Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd (Merionethshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 1 mm crystal group
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Origin: Wanni glacier - Scherbadung Mt. (Cervandone Mt.) area, Kriegalp Valley (Chriegalp Valley), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland
Sample size: 6.5 x 2.7 x 3.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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