Vote for your favorite mineral in #MinCup26! - Quartz vs. Asagiite It's a classic vs a newbie as the most common named mineral in the crust Quartz is up against an exceedingly-rare sea foam-green mineral discovered just a few years ago Asagiite.
The metamict mineral that Schetelig (1931) described as thalenite is showed to be a beta-phase of Y2Si2O7 with a thortveitite structure. This is identical with the mineral described as Keiviite -(Y) from Kola, Russia by Voloshin et al (1983)