Allanite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, some of them doubly terminated and of considerable size for this type of specimen. On matrix, with small Epidote crystals. The Allanite-(La) at this locality is zoned with Epidote, so the most correct name for them would be Allanite-(La) zoned with Epidote.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and 90s, put together a collection with a very good representation of Spanish mineralogy.
Nueva Vizcaya Mine, Los Calvitos property, Burguillos del Cerro, Comarca Zafra-Río Bodión, Badajoz, Extremadura Spain
Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.56” × 2.13” × 1.61”
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