Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Table 4 Composition of fluorite

From: Bristen granite: a highly differentiated, fluorite-bearing A-type granite from the Aar massif, Central Alps, Switzerland

#Points	Fluorite	Y- bearing fluorite
#Points	14	7	8
CaO^a	71.45	67.43	65.36
Y₂O₃	0.15	4.36	4.84
La₂O₃	0.01	0.01	0.34
Ce₂O₃	0.02	0.02	1.21
Nd₂O₃	0.02	0.03	0.85
F	47.99	48.48	48.08
Total^b	119.64	120.33	120.68
O=F	20.21	20.41	20.24
Total	99.44	99.92	100.43
Ca	0.998	0.954	0.931
Y	0.001	0.031	0.034
La			0.002
Ce			0.006
Nd			0.004
F	1.979	2.024	2.022
REE + Y	0.001	0.031	0.046

^aOxides in wt%
^bContains traces of Sr

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