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Calcite Sodalite & Monteregianite

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Calcite Sodalite & Monteregianite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.8 × 3 cm
Description

Classic specimen of weakly fluorescent calcite crystals associated with fluorescent sodalite, albite and type locality monteregianite, and with arfvedsonite and gemmy epididymite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Sodalite

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland

Monteregianite

Synonym Of: 

Monteregianite-(Y)

Formula: 
(Na,K)6(Y,Ca)2Si16O38·10H2O
Strunz: 
9.EB.15
Hardness: 
3.5

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