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Haineaultite

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Haineaultite

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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: 
3.8 × 3 × 2.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a nice small sample with one quite large, and numerous other small crystals of extremely rare haineaultite. Very good sample of this species from the only find!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Haineaultite

Formula: 
(Na,Ca)5Ca(Ti,Nb)5(Si6O17)2(OH,F)8·5H2O
Strunz: 
9.DG.50
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
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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