Hydrothermal assemblage typically as an overgrowth on needle-shaped to hair-like crystals of belovite-(Ce). Cs-dominant analogue of rasvumite and picotpaulite
IMA Status:
Approved IMA 2004 (Dana # Added)
Locality:
Palitra peralkaline pegmatite, Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin:
Name for Leonid Anatol'evich Pautov, a Russian mineralogist affiliated with the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.