euxenite

Related to euxenite: Polycrase

eux·e·nite

(yo͞ok′sə-nīt′)

A lustrous, blackish-brown mineral consisting primarily of titanium, uranium, and the rare-earth elements cerium, erbium, and yttrium.

[From Greek euxenos, kind to strangers (from its unusual composition) : eu-, eu- + xenos, stranger; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.]

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euxenite

(ˈjuːksɪˌnaɪt)

(Minerals) a rare brownish-black mineral containing erbium, cerium, uranium, columbium, and yttrium

[C19: from Greek euxenos hospitable (literally: well-disposed to strangers), from eu- + xenos stranger; from its containing a number of rare elements]

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Since the beginning of the 20th century it has been a fruitful collecting area, yielding fine crystals of euxenite, gadolinite, allanite, aeschynite, fersmite and many other species from its rare-earth-enriched pegmatites.

Alpine milarite

Included were Madagascar rare-earth classics like sharp betafite crystals to 4 cm; well-composed earthy brown sprays of 2-cm euxenite crystals; swarms of loose 1 and 2-cm cubes of lustrous black thorianite; and allanite crystal groups from Madagascar and from Alto Ligonha, Mozambique.

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Other minerals reported include xenotime, euxenite, bismutocolumbite, bismutomicrolite, microlite, hambergite, petali te, stilbite and apatite.

THE MINERALS OF RUSSIA: 22ND ANNUAL FM-TGMS-MSA MINERALOGICAL SYMPOSIUM

Associations include betafite, euxenite, monazite and xenotime-(Y) (DSGM, 1974).

Betafite has been reported from the Ile pegmatite, in association with euxenite, allanite and monazite, and from the Ehiale-Namovela-Massive-Horta group in association with euxenite and samarskite (DSGM, 1974).

THE ALTO LIGONHA PEGMATITES MOZAMBIQUE

Excellent albite, euxenite, monazite and zircon crystals have been found there as well.