“Pink complex crystal of Florencite-(Ce) - Florencite-(Sm) - Florencite-(Nd) (crust-intermediate zone-core) in white quartz from the type locality of the samarian IMA2009-074. Note that Sm-dominant zone is invisible on the photo, because of it is very narrow and located under surface, inside of the crystal, outer part of which is composed by Florencite-(Ce). This Florencite has very remarkable dichroism - under fluorescent lamps light it has salmon-pink colour, while under incandescent lamps one it is cranberry-pink (see daughter photo). Analytical data also are available on daughter photo. Specimen size is 6.5x3.5x3.5 cm. Specimens of such quality and size can be counted by fingers of one hand. Collected by the author - Svetlana A. Repina. Pavel M. Kartashov collection (#3394) and photo.
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Pavel Kartashov - 4th March 2010