Bastnäsite has a light orange complexion, burnt red, unkempt hair, a small pointed nose, and 7 burnt orange eyes, two of which that seem to be in her hair. Her lower mouth has plump lips and the upper mouth on her forehead looks similar to a cat's mouth. She also has a thin waist, a large torso, and six arms. Her gemstones are located on her chest, sternum, and outer hands' palms.
She wears a multi-toned reddish and brown bodysuit with lighter brown, pointed shoulder pads. There is a red half-star on her left chest, a brown, inverted triangle collar, and a brown sash around her waist. Two arms have elbow-length brown gloves that cover her middle and ring fingers, another two have short brown wristbands, and the last two have longer, reddish-orange arm bands with dark red, four-pointed stars. Her right shin has an orange, striped pattern, similar to a boot.
Personality[]
GemCrust describes her as being very disturbed.[2]
Abilities[]
Bastnäsite possesses standard Gem abilities, bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability.
Mallet Proficiency: Bastnäsite is able to summon a burnt orange mallet that has a reddish handle with a gold star at its end, similar to Sardonyx's warhammer.
Trivia[]
The line on her forehead was confirmed to be a second mouth.[3]
The mineral bastnäsite is one of a family of three carbonate-fluoride minerals, which includes bastnäsite-(Ce) with a formula of (Ce, La)CO3F, bastnäsite-(La).
Some of the bastnäsites contain OH− instead of F− and receive the name of hydroxylbastnasite.
Most bastnäsite is bastnäsite-(Ce), and cerium is by far the most common of the rare earths in this class of minerals.
Bastnäsite and the phosphate mineral monazite are the two largest sources of cerium and other rare-earth elements.
Bastnäsite was first described by the Swedish chemist Wilhelm Hisinger in 1838. It is named for the Bastnäs mine near Riddarhyttan, Västmanland, Sweden.
Bastnäsite also occurs as very high-quality specimens at the Zagi Mountains, Pakistan. Bastnäsite occurs in alkali granite and syenite and in associated pegmatites.
It also occurs in carbonatites and in associated fenites and other metasomatites.