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Crystals of bastnäsite-(Ce)

Well-developed crystals of bastnäsite-(Ce) from Zagi Mountain in Pakistan. The REE carbonate mineral bastnäsite, today one of the most important global sources of REE, was first described by W. Hisinger in 1838 in samples from the Bastnäs mines in south central Sweden.
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