Images, cerite-(La) now renamed ferricerite-(La)
Formula: (La,Ce,Ca)9Fe3+(SiO4)3(SiO3OH)4(OH)3
Nesosilicate (insular SiO4 groups), cerite group
Specific gravity: 4.7
Hardness: 5
Streak: White
Colour: Light yellow to pinkish-brown
Environments
Metamorphic environments
Hydrothermal environments
Localities
There are two co-type localities, an unnamed locality and the Hackman Valley, both at Yukspor Mt, Khibiny Massif,
Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Here ferricerite-(La) occurs as a late-stage, low-temperature
secondary phase in a symmetrically zoned,
aegirine-natrolite-microcline
vein in gneissose
foyaite.
Associated minerals include aegirine,
anatase, ancylite-(Ce),
barylite, catapleiite,
cerite-(Ce), chabazite-Ca,
edingtonite, fluorapatite,
galena, ilmenite,
microcline, natrolite,
sphalerite, strontianite
and vanadinite
(HOM).
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