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Rasvumite

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Rasvumite

Gilles Haineault
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some reddish-brown, micaceous sections of rare rasvumite in sodalite zenolith matrix. There is also a vug with some tiny brown crystals that may also be rasvumite, but could be erdite. Collected by Gilles Haineault. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rasvumite

Formula: 
KFe2S3
Strunz: 
2.FB.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Kirovskii apatite mine (Kirovsky Mine; Kirovskii Mine; Kirov Mine), Kukisvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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