Davidite is a rare earth oxide mineral with chemical end members La and Ce. It exists in two forms: *Davidite-(La) discovered at Radium Hill mine,

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

in 1906 and named by

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader duri ...

for Australian geologist Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934).Branagan, D.F. (2005): ''T.W. Edgeworth David: A Life: Geologist, Adventurer and "Knight in the Old Brown Hat"'', National Library of Australia, Canberra, p. 471. *Davidite-(Ce) first described in 1960 from Vemork, Iveland,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

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Uranium minerals Trigonal minerals Minerals in space group 148 {{oxide-mineral-stub