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Monazite

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Skavdalen in Evje og Hornnes, Agder, Norway is an old locality, or localities: a series of small feldspar quarries all of which are long since closed. Originally, the Lauvland 01 Feldspar quarry was termed Skavdalen, but several other small quarries within a few hundred metres of this have also been grouped under that name. At 2.9 cm across in its longest direction, this complete, well-formed cinnamon-brown, bladed Monazite-(Ce) crystal is an extremely fine example from this famous Scandinavian locality. It is attached to a thin sheet/cleavage surface of dark mica, but is near enough an off-matrix single crystal. It is from the superb systematic collection assembled by the brothers Martin and Michael Günther (1951-2007 & 1956-2021).