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Tugtupite Lintisite & Erdite

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Tugtupite Lintisite & Erdite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 0.6 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on small matrix specimen with a few rough tugtupite crystals with some white lintisite sprays, wood-like erdite and lighter pink ussingite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tugtupite

Formula: 
Na4(AlBeSi4O12)Cl
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Albitite vein, Tugtup Agtakôrfia (Tuttup Attakoorfia), Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Lintisite

Formula: 
LiNa3Ti2(Si2O6)2O2·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.DB.15
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Erdite

Formula: 
NaFeS2·2H2O
Strunz: 
2.FD.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Coyote Peak, Coastal Range, Humboldt Co., California, USA

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