signifies that this unknown is on fast-track toward description
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means that this UK will need some help if it wants to go forward
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indicates that this unknown is at a dead end for the time being.
UK# 101 – Na,K,Ti (SiOProperties – very small white balls, botryoidal groups
Occurrence – sodalite xenolith
Associated minerals – aegirine, albite, lovozerite and sodalite
UK# 105 – Y (POProperties – white to grey balls to 3mm with earthy lustre. Broken balls show a radiating structure with pearly lustre and comprised of platy micaceous crystals
Occurrence – pegmatite
Associated minerals – aegirine, albite and sérandite
UK# 107 – (Na,Ca)(Zr,Y)(PO)(CO)(OH,F) · 2HProperties – pink to colourless transparent rims on UK-108, sub- to euhedral pseudo-cubes to 0.2 mm
Occurrence – altered pegmatite
Associated minerals – analcime, catapleiite, cryolite, donnayite, elpidite, horváthite, rhodochrosite, sabinaite, synchysite-(Ce) and various zeolites
NOTES – Proposals are close to IMA submission stage
UK-107, 3mm
UK# 108 – (Na,Ca)(PO)(CO)F · 2H Properties – yellow translucent to opaque cores surrounded by UK-107, sub- to euhedral pseudo-cubes to 0.2 mm
Occurrence – altered pegmatite
Associated minerals – analcime, catapleiite, cryolite, donnayite, elpidite, horváthite, rhodochrosite, sabinaite, synchysite-(Ce) and various zeolites
NOTES – Proposals are close to the IMA submission stage
UK# 109 – NaBaCe(CO · 3H Properties – subhedral pseudo-hexagonal plates forming black to dark blue rosettes or dish-shaped aggregates to 0.7mm
Occurrence – pegmatite in sodalite syenite
Associated minerals – biotite, burbankite-group mineral, fluorite, magnetite, Na-dominant polymorph of lemoynite, pyrochlore, quartz, sphalerite and zircon