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Låvenite - Sold
- Kuropachii Pass
- Rypnetsk Mountain
- Khibiny Massif
- Kola Peninsula
- Russia
- 5.8 × 5.0 × 2.9 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Låvenite is a complex zirconium silicate, and a member of the wöhlerite group. Brögger (1884) named the mineral for its type locality, Låven Island in Norway.
Låvenite here forms radiating brown crystals to 10 mm in a crystalline rock consisting of cancrinite, orthoclase, and magnesio-arfvedsonite. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
