Hematite and Monazite-Ce included Quartz - Yates Brooks Farm, Cleveland Co., N.C.

TheOculus

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What would probably be overlooked as a Quartz specimen with Chlorite inclusions, this is in fact a rare combination of Hematite and Monazite-Ce included Quartz.

"This locality produced a host of unusual rare earth minerals and unfortunately it is off limits for collecting, making specimens very difficult to acquire. A crystal was analyzed by x-ray fluorescence and cerium x-ray line was confirmed. They show interesting etching from radioactivity within the crystal lattice." - N.R. Mineralology


Crystal size: 21 mm

Yates Brooks Farm, Lattimore, Cleveland Co., North Carolina

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