Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Donnayite-(Y)

Views:
Watches:
CAM153220

Donnayite-(Y)

Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 3.3 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

A beautiful sample of donnayite Y with lots of well-formed yellow brown crystals up to 7 mm on matrix.
A very good example of this uncommon sodium-strontium-yttrium-carbonate from the Type Locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Donnayite-(Y)

Formula: 
NaCaSr3Y(CO3)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
5.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0
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
Cartils Minerals

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps