Narvik, Nordland, Norway

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 8/2016

Platy crystals of vyunspakhkite-(Y) with grey, prismatic crystals of keiviite-(Y) and an unidentified, grey dipyramidal crystal in yttrofluorite from the tiny pegmatite at Stetind, Nordland, Norway. My catalogue number 8650. FOV 1.18 mm. The specimen comes from a larger rock collected by Tomas Husdal. Collection and photo OT. Ljøstad.

A partly transparent, brownish crystal of thalénite-(Y) with black crystals of allanite-)Ce) and greenish yttrofluorite from Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. I collected this specimen around 2006. My catalogue number 4743. FOV 3,55 mm. Collection and photo OT. Ljøstad.

A 1.2 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm pink thalénite-(Y) crystal with many nice faces in a matrix of yttrofluorite with some partially prismatic allanite-(Ce) crystals. Photo & Collection: Michael Krause

A 1,5 cm partly transparent crystal of Thalenite-(Y) embedded in Quartz with black Biotite from Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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Crystal with 1cm - August of 2005

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Thalénite-(Y) dark yellow to brown tabular crystal of about 18 mm in length on matrix of yttrofluorite ; Specimen size 7x5x4 cm [Small, black prismatic crystals= allanite-(Ce)]

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dimension area mm. 14 x 14 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried

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Two very rare minerals from Stetind, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway: White, fibrous schlüterite-(Y) and brownish, platy vyuntspakhkite-(Y). My catalogue number 8675. FOV 1.52 mm. The specimen comes from a rock collected by Tomas Husdal. Collection and photo OT. Ljøstad.

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A 5 mm, brownish, translucent thalenite-(Y) (formerly fluorthalenite-(Y)) crystal in ytrofluorite matrix. The specimen (no. 3351) is in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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A 3 mm crystal of Hundholmenite-(Y) in yttrian Fluorite from Stetind, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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A 0,5 mm dark red, translucent, terminated crystal of fergusonite-(Y) in colourless yttrofluorite. Hundholmen is the second locality for non-metamict fergusonite-(Y) in Norway. The specimen was collected by and is in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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Thalénite-(Y) dark yellow-brown tabular crystal of about 8 mm in length on a little matrix of yttrofluorite ; Specimen size 4x3x3 cm [Small, black prismatic crystals= allanite-(Ce)]

© Fabrizio Frattini Photo & Collection

Crystal size 2 mm. Collection and photo Giovanni Fraccaro.

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White, or actually very light pink, fibrous crystals of the very rare mineral schlüterite-(Y) in a void in vuggy yttrofluorite from Stetind, Nordland, Norway. My catalog number 8768. FOV 1.74 mm. The specimen comes from a larger rock collected by Tomas Husdal.

Brownish grains of hundholmenite in yttrofluorite with dark brown crystals of allanite (Ce) from the type locality Hundholmen, Nordland, Norway. My catalogue number 4717. FOV 3.85 mm. The specimens comes from a larger rock collected by Tomas Husdal. The type material comes from the same rock. Collection and photo OT. Ljøstad.

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Pinkish euhedral crystal laid flat on a matrix with micro cristals of black allanite-(Ce) embedded in yttrofluorite and feldspar.

A 1.0 cm transparent thalénite-(Y) crystal with some dark red inclusions (hematite?) on a matrix of greenish fluorite var. yttrofluorite and small allanite-Ce crystals. Photo & Collection. Michael Krause

A elongated tourmaline crystal (dravite or fluor-dravite). These has been labelled as "dravite" by local collectors. One, preliminary analysis of a tourmaline crystal from the same find showed that this was either a flour-rich dravite or a fluordravite (Kolitsch et al. 2011). The photo was printed as the front cover of the issue nr 4- ...

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A 1,5 cm crystal of Gadolinite-(Y) from Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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Thalénite-(Y) crystal with 1x0,2x0,2cm on matrix of Yttrofluorite - Overall size 4x3x2cm - August of 2005 - from Karsten Eig collection

© Photo and collection of Martins da Pedra

Blue internal reflection of peristerite. All of the gray cleavages are persiterite, but the plagioclase lamellae are not al a t the right angle to yeild the effect in this photo.

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dimension area mm. 2 x 2 yellow needles the first photo of the this rare minerals photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Shortwave illuminated yttrofluorite variety of fluorite showing creamy yellow response.

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Brownish grains of translucent hundholmenite-(Y) in massive, white yttrofluorite. FOV: 6 mm. Hundholmenite-(Y) has been identified from 4 yttrofluorite pegmatites in the Nordland county: Hundholmen, Stetind, Lagmannsvik and Øvre Lapplegeret. This specimen comes from a rock collected by Tomas Husdal, and it is now in the microcollection of OT. ...

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Brown, raw crystals of hundholmenite-(Y) in massive yttrofluorite with some more yellowish, raw crystals of bastnäsite-(Ce). I have used LED-lamps when I took this photo. If I had used tungsten lamps the bastnäsite would have a colour similar to the brown hundholmenite-(Y) crystals. When bastnäsite-(Ce) are viewed under fluorescent light they ...

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Brownish grains of hundholmenite in yttrofluorite with dark brown crystals of allanite (Ce). The tiny grey discs are probably an yttriumcarbonate. From the type locality, Hundholmen, Nordland, Norway. My catalogue number 4717. FOV 3.85 mm. The specimens comes from a larger rock collected by Tomas Husdal. The type material comes from the same rock. ...

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A dark green, translucent crystal of crystalline gadolinite-(Y) (none of gadolinites found in the Nordland County are metamict) in yttrofluorite from the Hundholmen Quarry, Nordland, Norway. My catalog number 9809. FOV 1.11 mm. The specimen was collected by me in August 2015 (se a photo of me at the locality collecting the specimen on Mindat). ...

Crystals of alnaperbøeite-(Ce)-perbøeite-(Ce) series in yttrian fluorite collected by Astrid Haugen/Hans Vidar Ellingsen at the tiny pegmatite Stetind, Nordland, Norway. Both alnaperbøeite and perbøeite can be present in the same specimen. My catalog number 10451. FOV 1.83 mm.

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Vug of Yttroflourite (some small crystals) with diverging aggregates of acicular Stetindite-(Ce), the Ce4+ analog of Zircon & Hafnon (HfSiO4), also being one of the most simple Ce-dominant sillicates. Stetindite-(Ce) - tetragonal - being the needle looking crystals (what you see visually in the picture is actually not Stetindite-(Ce), but a ...

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White, silky crystals of Adamsite-(Y) from Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Field of view: 2 cm. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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Field of view 2,5mm

© Harald Folvik, Hurdal, Norway

An aggregate of brick red Fluocerite intergrown with brown plates of Bastnäsite-(Ce) rimmed by Allanite from the Hundholmen pegmatite, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Field of view: 2 cm. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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A 6 mm aggregate of white, acicular strontiodresserite crystals on calcite crystals collected by Tomas Husdal at Kjopsvik in Tysfjord. The specimen is in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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A 0,7 mm white, prismatic keiviite-(Y) crystal in vuggy yttrofluorite. The specimen was collected by Tomas Husdal, and it is now in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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Aggregates to 2 mm of platy crystals of Lokkaite-(Y) from Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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Light, pinkish brown thalenite-(Y) crystals in vuggy yttrofluorite. The biggest crystal is 0,75 mm. Stetind is one of two yttrofluorite locality where thalenite-(Y) can be found as free crystals in vuggy matrix. The specimen was collected by Tomas Husdal, and it is now in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

An about 15mm aggregate of black, prismatic rutile crystals with clear calcite crystals collected by Tomas Husdal at Kjopsvik in Tysfjord. The specimen is in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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A 3 mm crystal of Xenotime-(Y) on Albite from a cavity in a granite pegmatite, Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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A group of black, terminated allanite-(Ce) crystals in massive yttrofluorite. Allanite-(Ce) from this locality has been analyzed by the Russina mineralogist Pavel M. Kartashov. Field of view: 4 mm. The specimen was collected by and is in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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dimension area mm. 2 x 2 the rowlandite-(Y) is the brown massive mineral in the middle of the photo photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

dimension area mm. 6 x 6 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Light pink, platy kuliokite-(Y) crystals in vuggy yttrofluorite. The biggest crystal is 0,63 mm. The specimen was collected by Tomas Husdal, and it is now in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

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A 3 mm yellow crystal of Chabazite-K partly replaced by Chabazite-Na from Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Confirmed by EDS. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

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dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Brownish grains and rough crystals of hundholmenite-(Y) in massive, white yttrofluorite. The more yellowish mineral is bastnesite. FOV: 15 mm. Hundholmenite-(Y) has been identified from 4 yttrofluorite pegmatites in the Nordland county: Hundholmen (as grains), Stetind (also as rare, sharp, triangular, freegroving, twinned crystals), Lagmannsvik ...

© OT. Ljostad

Ytterfluorite with allanite Collection NHM Photo Øivind Thoresen

© Øivind Thoresen

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 the kozoite-(Nd) is the pink mineral photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Vyuntspakhkite-(Y) crystals to 1 mm in yttrian Fluorite from Stetind, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

© Knut Eldjarn

dimension area mm. 4 x 4 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Pale brownish-pink grains/crystals (some faces can be seen at some grains) of hundholmenite-(Y) - relatively new, complex Y-REE-Ca-Na-Al-Fe boro(arseno)(fluoro)silicate with its unique As3+ - substituted Ca site. The grains sit in Y-rich fluorite variety. The upper-left aggregate is 1.1 mm wide. Specimen obtained from Systematic Mineral Shop of ...

© Łukasz Kruszewski 2007

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

A 0,4 mm reddish crystal of fergusonite-(Y) in massive, colourless yttrofluorite. The specimen was collected by and is in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad

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An exceptionally good, 0,6 mm, terminated, prismatic crystal of ytterbian keiviite-(Y) in vuggy yttrofluorite from one of the most interesting mineral localities in Norway, Stetind, in the northern part of Norway. The mineralizied area of the locality is only a few square meters, and so far it is the type-locality of 7 minerals, and several more ...

© OT. Ljøstad

A specimen with black allanite-(Ce) as reactional rims around pale brown masses of yttrian fluorite ("yttrofluorite", marked "Bas" (sic!)) and darker yellow-brownish masses (marked "Flc") with cores of fluocerite-(Ce) and intermediate zones of bastnäsite-(Ce) . The white mineral (marked "Yfl") is feldspar. The brown grain near the upper edge ...

© Knut Edvard Larsen

A pale pink, rounded subhedral crystal of britholite-(Y) embedded in white yttrian fluorite (Yttrofluorite) matrix together with black allanite-(Ce) etc. A black arrow points to the britholite-(Y) in the lower part of the photo. Collected the 26.06.2010. FOV: 1 cm

© Knut Edvard Larsen

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Light, pinkish brown aggregates of thalenite-(Y) crystals in vuggy yttrofluorite. The aggregate is 2,4 mm. Stetind is one of two yttrofluorite localities where thalenite-(Y) occurs as freegrowing crystals in vuggy matrix. The specimen was collected by Tomas Husdal, and it is now in the micromount collection of OT. Ljostad.

Subparallel, black, hydrothermally corroded (partly hollow) prisms of luinaite-(OH) (identified by crystal structure refinement and SEM-EDS-analyses; free of Mg, Mn, Ti, K), locally overgrown with globular brownish chamosite (EDS-analysed; Mg-free) and very minor calcite (white, left of top). Width of photo ca. 2 cm. Photo Fritz Schreiber. Note: ...

© Fritz Schreiber

Greyish, dipyramidal crystal of the very rare mineral atelisite-(Y) in vuggy yttrofluorite matrix. The specimen was collected by the Norwegian collector and Stetind-specialist Tomas Husdal. FOV: About 2,5 mm. Collection and photo: OT. Ljøstad.

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Base 0,8 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Whitish crystal of keiviite-(Y) over red-lilac vyuntspakhkite-(Y) and light pink bastnaesite-(Ce). Base 2,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

A single textbook bastnaesite-Ce crystal. Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried.

© Stephan Wolfsried 5/2018

Brown aggregates to 1 cm of Hundholmenite-(Y) embedded in a large specimen of yttrian Fluorite from the type locality at Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

© Knut Eldjarn

Bladed crystals of Kyanite in matrix from a road cut on E6 just north of Narvik, Nordland, Norway. Field of view: 8 x 6 cm. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

© Knut Eldjarn

A 0,8 mm light pink, acicular aggregate of schlüterite crystals in vuggy yttrofluorite. Collection and photo: OT. Ljøstad.

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yttrofluorite with torneböhmite-(Ce) crystals. size: 60x35x33 mm. photo 6-15-2011.

© Philip Bluemner

Brownish grains of translucent hundholmenite-(Y) and black grains of allanite-(Ce)in a vuggy area and in massive, white yttrofluorite. FOV: 10 mm. Hundholmenite-(Y) has been identified from 4 yttrofluorite pegmatites in the Nordland county: Hundholmen, Stetind, Lagmannsvik and Øvre Lapplegeret. This specimen comes from a rock collected by Tomas ...

© OT. Ljostad

A 1mm brownish, triangular, single crystal of hundholmenite-(Y) in massive, white yttrofluorite. Hundholmenite-(Y) has been identified from 4 yttrofluorite pegmatites in the Nordland county: Hundholmen (as grains), Stetind (also as light brown, sharp, triangular, freegrowing, twinned crystals), Lagmannsvik (as grains) and Øvre Lapplegeret (as ...

© OT. Ljostad

Yellowish yttrofluorite and black allanite-(Ce). size 32x27 mm. photo 2-8-2011.

© Philip Bluemner

dimension area mm. 10 x 10 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Aggregates of brownish grains of allanite-(Y) surrounded by a rim of black allanite-(Ce) in grey, yttrian fluorite. The specimen has been analyzed. Only one specimen is known from the locality. The specimen was collected by the photographer. Collection and photo OT. Ljøstad.

Base 1,2 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

A greenish coating of scorodite on arsenopyrite. Size of scorodite: approximately 1 x 1 cm Photo & collection: A. Michalsen

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