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Sample n° 7216

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
APATITE	Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl)	phosphates	-	major
PYROCHLORE	(Ca,Na)2Nb2O6(O,OH,F)	oxides and hydroxides	-	major

Description

Description: altered carbonatite with abundant pyrochlore and apatite

Information: Brasseur, H., Herman, P. & Hubaux, A., 1962. Apatites de l'est du Congo et du Ruanda. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 85, 61-85.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Kivu
• Locality: Rutshuru, Lueshe

Specification

• Donors: Safiannikoff
  Donation year: 1959
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 2
  Size:

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 2
  Quality code 1>2>3: 3
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: no
• Thin section: no
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: no

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