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Dresserite

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Dresserite

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Description
Locality: 
Francon Quarry, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5 × 3.9 cm
Description

A good sample of dresserite, a rare barium-aluminium-carbonate, with a good coverage of white acicular crystals in spherical clusters on matrix associated with some yellowish weloganite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dresserite

Formula: 
BaAl2(CO3)2(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
5.DB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Cartils Minerals

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