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.
Occurs as part of hexagonal polycrystals consisting of bastnäsite-(Ce) and parisite-(Ce). Identified by PXRD, Torfinn Kjærnet 2024. There was no sign of synchysitt-(Ce) in the PXRD diagram. The specimens were collected from the "hambergite pegmatite" which was found on level 5 in the quarry