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Tritomite-(Y)
- Cranberry Lake
- Sussex County
- New Jersey
- U.S.A.
- 4.5 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Tritomite-(Y) is a yttrium borosilicate. Originally named spencite by Frondel (1961), restudy by Jaffe & Molinski (1962) demonstrated the similarity of spencite and tritomite. In his seminal paper defining rare earth mineral nomenclature, Levinson (1966) separated tritomite into two species, original tritomite-(Ce) from Norway and this mineral tritomite-(Y).
Tritomite-(Y) forms a resinous black mass, 1.1 cm across, in massive magnetite. This is the type locality for tritomite-(Y). Part of the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona. Formerly in the A.L. Kidwell and Gunnar Bjareby collections.
Price: $125
Item code: MS1962
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