A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Parisite on galena |
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| Description | Parisite is one of the few rare-earth carbonate minerals. It has formula Ca(Ce,La,Nd)2(CO3)3F2 (calcium cerium lanthanum neodymium carbonate fluoride). It is typically white to clear but may also be various shades of yellow and brown. In this 3 cm wide specimen, white-gray translucent parisite has grown on silver-gray galena (PbS). Parisite is a significant rare-earth ore mineral at the bastnaesite mines of Mountain Pass, California, where this sample comes from. |
| Location | USA ▹ California |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-20. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #758. |
| Key words | parisite, galena, California |
| Tech details | 550 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 822 |
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