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Wakefieldite-(Ce)

Year of discovery: 1977 (Kobokobo pegmatite, Congo (Zaïre)), 2011 (Japan)

Locality list: A locality of wakefieldite-(Ce)

• CeVO₄
• [Ce³⁺][VO₄]^3-

• Class: Xenotime group
• Class: Vanadate
• Radioactive: Weak

• Ce => Bi: Pucherite, Clinobisvanite, Dreyerite
• Ce => Nd: Wakefieldite-(Nd)
• Ce => La: Wakefieldite-(La)
• Ce => Y: Wakefieldite-(Y)

• VO₄ => PO₄: Monazite-(Ce)
• VO₄ => NbO₄: Fergusonite-(Ce), β-Fergusonite-(Ce)
• VO₄ => AsO₄: Gasparite-(Ce)

• Color: Dark red-Black
• Streak: Dark brown
• Luster: Vitreous
• Diaphaneity: Translucent

• Cleavage: No
• Hardness: 4.5
• Density: 4.8

• System: Tetragonal
• Group: 4mm, I4₁/amd
• Lattice: a=7.4, c=6.5