A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Ancylite from Darby, Montana |
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| Description | Ancylite is a hydrated strontium-cerium carbonate mineral. Its color is predominantly pink, rarely pale orange and pinkish gray in larger masses. This 7 cm wide sample is fine grained, but ancylite sometimes occurs as megascopic sharp single or groups of crystals. It is found in hydrothermal veins and in pegmatites, generally associated with felsic alkalic rocks or carbonatites. |
| Location | USA ▹ Montana. Near Darby. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-19. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #754. |
| Key words | ancylite, Montana |
| Tech details | 657 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 802 |
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