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noun - a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites

A velvet-black mineral that is a complex mixture of several rare-earth metals with niobium and tantalum oxide.

SAMARSKITE - Samarskite is a radioactive rare earth mineral series which includes samarskite-(Y) with formula: (YFe3+Fe2+U,Th,Ca)2(Nb,Ta)2O8 and samarskite-(Yb) w...

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Digger's boast about a planet yielding uranium ore

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Apr 1 2005 The Times - Cryptic

Samarskite description
Samarskite is a radioactive rare earth mineral series which includes * samarskite-(Y) with formula: (YFe3+Fe2+U,Th,Ca)2(Nb,Ta)2O8 * and samarskite-(Yb) with formula (YbFe3+)2(Nb,Ta)2O8. The formula for samarskite-(Y) is also given as: (Y,Fe3+,U)(Nb,Ta)O4.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 occurs in rare earth bearing granite pegmatites with other rare minerals. It occurs in association with columbite, zircon, monazite, uraninite, aeschynite, magnetite, albite, topaz, beryl, garnet, muscovite and biotite.Samarskite was first described in 1847 for an occurrence in Miass, Ilmen Mountains, Southern Ural Mountains of Russia. The chemical element samarium was first isolated from a specimen of samarskite in 1879. Samarium was named after samarskite which

Samarskite description

Samarskite is a radioactive rare earth mineral series which includes
* samarskite-(Y) with formula: (YFe3+Fe2+U,Th,Ca)2(Nb,Ta)2O8
* and samarskite-(Yb) with formula (YbFe3+)2(Nb,Ta)2O8. The formula for samarskite-(Y) is also given as: (Y,Fe3+,U)(Nb,Ta)O4.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 occurs in rare earth bearing granite pegmatites with other rare minerals. It occurs in association with columbite, zircon, monazite, uraninite, aeschynite, magnetite, albite, topaz, beryl, garnet, muscovite and biotite.Samarskite was first described in 1847 for an occurrence in Miass, Ilmen Mountains, Southern Ural Mountains of Russia. The chemical element samarium was first isolated from a specimen of samarskite in 1879. Samarium was named after samarskite which

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