Original description: ‘Bastnaesite’ Huot, J. J. N., 1841. Genre. Lanthane. 2 Espèce, Bastnaesite — Manuels-Roret. Nouveau Manuel Complet de Minéralogie, Paris: 296 [
view in ‘Library’].
Type locality: Bastnäs mines, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, Sweden.
Type material: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, 23:0476 (
Anthony et al., 2001—2005).
Etymology: for its type locality in the Bastnäs mines, Sweden, and the content of cerium.
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