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What is an allanite?

What is an allanite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) Any of a group of silicate minerals that are a source of rare earth metals.
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Foord reported that bastnasite has been found pseudomorphing allanite.
Schlieren consists of biotite, amphibole, zircon, allanite, monazite, magnetite, and fluorite.
Gadolinite and allanite intergrowths form walnut-shaped vitreous black masses and nodules to 5 cm across.
The Bakfjord Granite contains quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, plagioclase, epidote, allanite, muscovite and occasional garnet.
The rare earth mineralization, consisting of fergusonite, allanite, and zircon, occurs in amphibole bearing granitic pegmatites.
Large titanite euhedra are abundant along with apatite and zircon, with allanite and epidote less so.

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