Western Australia in 1911

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Mexico is a natural raw mineral featuring transparent quartz points clustered on a bed of pyrite crystals

Product Type: Silver Ring

It is a large specimen and displays beautifully

Samarskite-(Y) Mineral | 3.4 grams | South Platte Pegmatite Mining District | Jefferson County, Colorado, USA Body Jewellery Western Australia in 1911Samarskite is a radioactive rare earth mineral. Samarskite crystallizes in the orthorhombic dipyramidal class as black to yellowish brown stubby prisms although it is typically found as anhedral masses. Specimens with a high uranium content are typically metamict and appear coated with a yellow brown earthy rind. Samarskite (Y) is rich in rare earth elements (REEs), niobium (Nb), and tantalum (Ta)all of which are valuable in advanced electronics,