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MINERAL-A

MINERAL-B

MINERAL-C

MINERAL-D

MINERAL-E

MINERAL-F

MINERAL-G


Other unnamed minerals

MINERAL-C 

(REE-carbonate)

Mineral-C was described by Fred Parker in The Picking Table, 27, #2, 27 (1986) as a bastnaesite- like mineral associated with microcline and allanite from Franklin. It was identified on the basis of X-ray powder diffraction methods, and EDAX analysis showed Ce and La to be major elements.

 

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CHAPTER 26. UNNAMED MINERALS