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Griceite Ussingite & Chkalovite

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Griceite Ussingite & Chkalovite

Charlie Key collection
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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: 
3.6 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug hosting a fantastic, sharp group of griceite crystals. In other vugs are strange elongated ussingite crystals, lovozerite dodecahedra, smaller clusters of griceite and a few colorless, rough chkalovite crystals. A fantastic sample of griceite and loaded with other interesting things. Ex. Charlie Key collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Griceite

Formula: 
LiF
Strunz: 
3.AA.20
Hardness: 
4.5
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

Ussingite

Formula: 
Na2AlSi3O8OH
Strunz: 
9.EH.20
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Kangerluarsuk Fjord (Kangerdluarssuq Fjord), Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Chkalovite

Formula: 
Na2BeSi2O6
Strunz: 
9.DM.20
Hardness: 
6.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Malyi Punkaruaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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