Talk:Monazite

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Note that the figures incorrectly identify lanthanum as "Ln" rather than "La" 192.5.180.6 (talk) 23:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't really know, but I would assume the "ln³⁺" is referring to generic lanthanide elements rather than specifically lanthanum. Vsmith (talk) 01:20, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Radiation damage?

The article states "If samples are kept, they should be placed away from minerals that can be damaged by radiation." What is this talking about? What minerals are damaged by radiation? Generally "minerals" are pretty immune to that sort of attack... -- stillnotelf is invisible 15:28, 5 February 2013 (UTC) monazite is black in colour. It is a resourse of helium. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.139.208.89 (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Possible new section re: exposure risk to human health

Here's a reference: https://www.tweeddailynews.com.au/news/cancer-cluster-scare-black-sand-suspect-in-deaths/2748511/ --Danimations (talk) 05:29, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Discussion of safety usually rely on reviews in professional journal per this guideline WP:MEDRS. News articles with "scare" in the title would be removed.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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cure treatment

Monazite Sand can help: chronic, inflammatory diseases caused by an over-active defence system: in rheumatoid arthritis, Bechterews disease, other chronic cases of joint inflammation and in psoriasis.

• https://medium.com/@stefangeorgeta1978/the-radioactive-beach-at-areia-prata-in-brazil-2a68025d9afc

Serious side effects - Possible positive effects of ionising radiation - hormesis

• https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/effect/effect_node.html

There is NO "monazite-(Pr)"

"Monazite-(Pr)" is non-existent....

The group contains monazite-(Ce), monazite-(La), monazite-(Nd), monazite-(Sm), and monazite-(Gd).

See: https://www.mindat.org/min-2750.html

Always use MINDAT as the only correct source of mineralogical data.

~2026-26058 (talk) 14:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)Eudialytos

Thank you for that. I have updated it per the info on Mindat as best I can, but don't know anything about the chemical structures and don't have time to dig further. Ideally, we need a citation for each of those types, as the Mindat pages don't seem to mention the elements in each as far as I can see. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:46, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

p.s. it was this edit that introduced it - an IP user, probably a vandal. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:49, 1 April 2026 (UTC)