florencite

[′flär·ən‚sīt]

(mineralogy)

CeAl₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₆ Pale-yellow mineral composed of basic phosphate of cerium and aluminum.

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plumbogummite

References in periodicals archive ?

Rasmussen, "Early-diagenetic REE-phosphate minerals (florencite, gorceixite, crandallite, and xenotime) in marine sandstones: a major sink for oceanic phosphorus," American Journal of Science, vol.

Grain-size control on the rare earth elements distribution in the late diagenesis of cretaceous shales from the Southern Apennines (Italy)

Florencite (Ce,La,Nd)[Al.sub.3][([PO.sub.4]).sub.2][(OH).sub.6]

A massive chunk of florencite from the Naipa pegmatite was collected by Mark Bandy and came later into the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

THE ALTO LIGONHA PEGMATITES MOZAMBIQUE

It was found to contain monazite (later reidentified as brockite) and florencite in subordinate amounts.

(1965) and Trace (1960), reported thorium-bearing and rare-earth-bearing fluorite with sphalerite, galena, barite, monazite (later found to be brockite), florencite, bertrandite, calcite, quartz, pyrite, brookite, yttroparisite (?), biotite, rutile, xenotime and apatite.