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The Ancylite Group [Ancylite (Ce) and Calcioancylite (Ce)] are among the most common accessory minerals at MSH. The crystals never get larger than a few millimetres but have the unusual property of "colour change". In sunlight and incandescent light they are pink to purple but under fluorescent light they are blue-grey.
Ancylite was one of the last carbonates to crystallize at MSH and commonly pseudomorphed other minerals. Ancylite pseudomorphs after a hexagonal Burbankite Group mineral (Remondite?) are common.
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