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Quintinite

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Quintinite

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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: 
3.7 × 3.1 × 2.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with many vugs hosting nice tabular crystals of rare quintinite with ancylite pseudomorphs after an unknown precursor. My last good piece! William Henderson material. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quintinite

Formula: 
Mg4Al2(OH)12[CO3]·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.40
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Jacupiranga Mine, Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil

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