Volker Heck

Micro Minerals

Trimouns plant former Talc mine of Talc de Luzenac - now IMERYS Talc, pit in height of 1.450m, mining only during summer periode	Monazite - (Ce) click picture & explore
Talc click picture & explore	Ilmoriite - (Y) click picture & explore
Mg-Clinochlore click picture & explore	Bastnäsite-Ce Bastnäsite-Ce Ce(CO3)F Plately hexagonal crystals Bastnäsite up to a few centimeter in orange yellow colour shine bright in dolomite inclusions. Sometimes lamellar adhesion with Synchisite.
Allanit Ce rare earth mineral {CaCe}{Al2Fe2+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH) Allanit is linked to Epidote super group and can be find in Trimouns in his Ce-variation. Mixed-crystal series with Dissakisite-(Ce). Color is changing from green-brown to brown-reddish withe pleochroism effect. Sometime zonare growth layers like we know from bi-color tourmaline. Allanite is a brittle mineral so really nice specimen are rare.	Parisite-Ce CaCe2(CO3)3F2 Highly variable in morphologic forms Parisite can be find. From spiky bi-pyromidal habitus to stouter barrel-shaped figures.