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Caresite

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some very unusual groups of caresite crystals on matrix. The crystals started as reddish barrels and were overgrown by these strange, stellate yellow crystals that reticulated very nicely. A note with this material states: 'negative for REE, sent to A. Mcd., caresite at cores and on ends'. WAH material. 

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Caresite

Formula: 
Fe2+4Al2(OH)12[CO3]·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.40
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada

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