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page 1Minerals in space group 34
lepersonnite-(Gd)
Lepersonnite-(Gd) is a very rare uranium and rare-earth mineral with the chemical formula . It occurs with bijvoetite-(Y) in the Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, famous for rare uranium minerals. It was the first confirmed mineral with essential gadoliniumGadolinium: The mineralogy of gadolinium - Mindat. org and remained the only gadolinium dominant species until the description of Monazite-(Gd) in 2023.
tsugaruite
Tsugaruite is a sulfosalt mineral with the chemical formula . It was first discovered in 1997 in a thin baryte veinlet at the Yunosawa mine in Ikarigaseki, Aomori. In 1998, the International Mineralogical Association approved it as a new mineral species. The mineral was named for its type locality's location in Japan's Tsugaru Peninsula.