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Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

 
Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce) from 185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York

DESCRIPTION:No. 358
Mineral:Xenotime-(Y) and Monazite-(Ce)
Locality:185 Street dump of Harlem Speedway construction site, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York
Description:Several dark translucent brown di-pyramidal xenotime crystals to 4 mm with doubly terminated 4.5 mm translucent dark brown monazite crystal in quartz-albite matrix from the well-documented find of rock excavated during Harlem Speedway construction. Ex. Henry D. Miller (1838-1919 or 1920) collection #1471 (see Final Disposition Of Some American Collections Of Minerals, Frederick A. Canfield, 1923), bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1909; ex. Loomis-Chaffee School
Overall Size:7x3x2.5 cm
Crystals:2.5-4.5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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