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Vuonnemite & Terskite

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Vuonnemite & Terskite

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 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with one vug hosting some platy yellow crystals of very rare vuonnemite and the other hosting an altered dodechedron of terskite replacing lovozerite. This is a very good sample of both these rare species from the sodalite zenoliths. Collected by Gilles Haineault. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vuonnemite

Formula: 
Na11Ti4+Nb2(Si2O7)2(PO4)2O3(F,OH)
Strunz: 
9.BE.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Vuonnemiok River Valley, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

Terskite

Formula: 
Na4ZrSi6O16·2H2O
Strunz: 
9.DM.40
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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